Chaos of Captivity

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Arrow Breaking Apart
BY JASON SHINDER
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While lovers sleep, I dig my nails into the earth,
 
holding up traffic. Just now a cloud has pulled up
while I was talking to the Emptiness
 
of the Universe and my voice plugged into the waves
 
at the bottom of the ocean.
My heart is taped up like a child’s drawing
 
of the moon over the broken window of the sky
 
where the wind always comes back to fill my lungs.
I will dance on my shadow. I will open my mouth
 
with the air inside my mother’s coffin.
 
I will be the arrow breaking apart in the body
of the blackbird, which appears at my window, singing.
and eyeing me lecherously
trying to gauge an easy 
venue for manipulating me.
Like an arrow piecing flesh