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Slip Casting

By Philomena  Amalfitano

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Something was over. I remember

night thawing at the doorway.


That’s when the soul first left

my skin, when it eavesdropped

from the cupboard.
 

Sunrise. Pools of green hanging

over houses. No voice
coiled in the river.


Even the glassy blooms
felt like harm. Just me
and my savage lung —
one plum leash.


Something was over,
I threw bones.

Slip Casting - Philomena Amalfitano
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Philomena Amalfitano is a Sicilian writer based in New York. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Wild Roof Journal, South Broadway Press, San Pedro River Review, Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine, and others.  Connect with her on Instagram at PhilomenasPalette.

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