After you hang up
your obsolete handpiece
after you go,
comfort noise
swells through the holes.
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Rachel McAlpine
Month: April 2016
Surreptitious
Friendship slips
out the window
when lovers shout
and part.
It may ring the doorbell
later
when neither hurts
nor waits
nor wants.
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Rachel McAlpine
Poems in the wild—Rachel McAlpine 