Juice Online Poetry & Art
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2008
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Linda Carpenter

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    voices

    I shed voices the way
    a snake will shed it's skin
    rubbing against rough rocks

    there is a silence when a voice leaves
    like watching a child's balloon
    disappear into the sky
    as if it were entering an open mouth

    or how one night I looked up
    and five moon faces
    hung around the orb
    like loitering teenagers
    they drifted off as light cloud enveloped them

    I shed voices as I'm trained to
    accepting wafers from a nurse's hand



Linda Carpenter