Mary Magazine

before she started
interrupting herself
when the image fell off
the flowers by the bathroom
sign, a red exit tone
onto the plastic
that held them together
when we got pregnant
what a giant shadow on the wall!

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RICHARD MEIER is the author of Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar and Terrain Vague, both available from Wave Books. He lives in Chicago and is writer-in-residence at Carthage College in Kenosha, WI and plays guitar in James Fishman-Morren's band The Ja Na.