My Day 13 Poem for the May 30/30 Challenge is up at Tupelo Press!

May 14, 2017 / stephanielharper

Titanoboa

Titanoboa cerrejonensis

When this diminishing skin of self-pity refuses
to slough off & relinquish its groaning contents,
my pain sends me inward to my prehistoric depths…

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3 thoughts on “My Day 13 Poem for the May 30/30 Challenge is up at Tupelo Press!”

robert okaji

May 14, 2017 at 2:09 am

48 feet long? 5 is enough to make me shiver. Zero gravity would be so pleasant on those days…

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- stephanielharper
  
  May 14, 2017 at 2:46 am
  
  I need a hyperbaric chamber, because the muscle relaxers seem to interfere with my poetic mojo.
  
  As for the snake, she’s a beauty! Her closest living relative is the green anaconda.
  
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  - robert okaji
    
    May 14, 2017 at 12:17 pm
    
    Muscle relaxers put me to sleep, but pain is difficult to write through. You are in a hard place…😦
    
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