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10-Lighting Fixture

Featured Poet Austin Alexis Page 1

Lighting Fixture

Months later, after the glass fixture

catapulted to the parquet floor,

crashing into three thousand pieces,

I’m still finding its fragments

under the desk,

behind the file cabinet,

among knickknacks atop the bookcase.

Stray memories of a friendship

that has cracked,

     shattered,

                   lunged into a zone

where its parts summersaulted

beyond the grip of hands and fingers

that were cut by it

as they reached out

to break its plunge.

Austin Alexis

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