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An Impossible Rupture

By Maya Rabinowitz

The day after things changed

It rained buckets

Bubbles floating across mirrored puddles

 

I woke in grey violet

And left my dreams in a hurry

A flurry of heartbeats

Racking the dreary room

 

I took a drag through the rain

To count my words

 

To spread

Water from the

Crease of my cheek

The bridge of my nose

 

A silent story of sorrow

 

I warmed a can of

Salty metal soup

Til it hissed at the corners and

Overflowed the bowl

Cloudy liquid growing cold

As it clung to my throat

 

I could not stand

Inside my skin

I could not stand my head

 

Through years

Of shifting loss

The same prayer flags still

Drip from my doorframe

 

Still tangle on the synapses

That lie between wake and dream

 

May I never settle

May I always have a song to sing

 

 

 

Maya Rabinowitz is a sixteen-year-old lover of music and avid reader of anything poetic. She lives in Philadelphia, PA, in a quiet neighborhood with her two moms and her dog Ollie. She spends much of her free time writing, and her work has also been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

 

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Winter Poems 2017

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