Gloves, timetables, the correct change are impatient, soon done with me.
Keys like handshakes depart. The right questions are umbrellas which linger,
losing me in booths, on busses. I took a risk--now corridors
encourage me to drop a little extra--buttons, a hat, my mauve bouclé muffler.
Talk to me like a clerk. I can describe what I've lost.
You're quiet as a globe--listen
I'm giving away my secrets.
Rachel Norton's poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Northwest Review, Poetry Now, and other publications. Barbarian Press has published a book of her poems and poems by Paula Gardiner entitled Believed to Cause Night.
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