“Capsized” by Jennifer Beckett

When she drowns,
it will be in a sea of metaphor.

She’ll reach out
thinking your words are life

preservers. But your lines attach
to dollar store inflatables,

plastic punctured by driftwood.

The past also makes a convenient anchor.

-Jennifer Beckett

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