After the Impact
Someone comes pouring
through me like gunpowder,
overestimating the limits
of my skin and serially
unbraiding my bones. Later
on, cold facts shear away
from me like comets so fast
they leave craters where seas
might start so armies of arrivers
can march in the night, slashing
routes along land they
had given up as lost.
Laurinda Lind lives in New York's North Country. The inside of her house looks like a bomb hit it. Some poetry publications/ acceptances are in Blue Earth Review, Blueline, Comstock Review, Constellations, Paterson Literary Review, and Radius, also anthologies Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (New Rivers Press) and AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss and Grief (Radix Media). In 2018, she won first place in both the Keats-Shelley Prize for adult poetry and the New York State Fair poetry competition.