"A SENTENCE"
by Nate Pritts
The back of my head is a pale flannel bed sheet
stretched smooth in morning light
except there is someone grabbing a handful
& twisting so that at the base of my skull
is an immense center of tension which I
have tried here to represent as something soft,
something that offered comfort when we were
two bodies fitted together in early glowing,
& which evokes that much more pain & sympathy
from the reader when they see the hand is yours.
from Sweet Nothing (Lowbrow Press, 2011)
www.natepritts.com
video blip by Will Torbett
Song is "The Future Starts with You" from Portal 2.
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