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A Snapshot of Spades: December ’95

By Alexis Noga

In her new apartment my mother wears lipstick
the color of raspberries.
The record player gently siphons 60’s blues,
she is unapologetic when she sings off-key,
or smokes inside to ease the tension of new sheets.
She’s smiling, and its clumsy,
conscious of the gap between her front teeth,
but still, it’s honest.
She bridges a blue deck of cards forming,
a kaleidoscope of numbers and patterns.
Her beauty distracts, though she doesn’t know.
In my mind, she shuffles again,
each number counting the times she wished she were fearless.

 

Lexi is a first-year student at Denison University majoring in Creative Writing and Religion. This year she is a recipient of the Woodyard Scholarship and has been published in Dension’s literature magazine Exile.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Issue Fourteen

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