• HOLDING ACTION
• Holding onto secret pieces of myself,
• fragmented.
• Hiding them under the covers,
• telling them to the dishpan and the dog,
• singing them to the trees.
• Writing them on scraps of paper
• collected into bags
• at the back of the closet.
• Someday,
• when I am stronger,
• I will bring them all out,
• and reconstruct myself.

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Tina Bell tdbell1@jps.net