crept crawled | dragged its knees |
stabbed elbows into polished | wooden
floors | eyes fixed on climax | between
crumbs | of arguments unspoken |
twitches | spasms | of reluctance | the end
wrapped | thin fingers ‘round a scalpel |
removed the appendage | a clean sharp
cut | under local anaesthesia | the patient
| awake | facing a bright white room |
aware | of a missing aspect of the self |
unaware | of the intricacies behind | the
haemorrhage
D. Parker spends most of her days surrounded by books both at work and at home. In her free time she reads and occasionally lets words form on paper.