Patient is
a heart
in slow endure
noise a cacophony,
smell what tricks
the light in
switch to off
inch by inch
in slow it moves
where to put the things
that have no place
in do it now
the butterfly moves
even with torn wings
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Katarina Boudreaux
Patient is
a heart
in slow endure
noise a cacophony,
smell what tricks
the light in
switch to off
inch by inch
in slow it moves
where to put the things
that have no place
in do it now
the butterfly moves
even with torn wings
Katarina Boudreaux is a writer, musician, composer, tango dancer, and teacher—a shaper of word, sound, and mind. She recently returned to New Orleans after residing in Texas, Connecticut, and New York. New work is forthcoming in Synaesthesia Magazine, Epigraph Magazine, and Dirty Press.
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