returning washers
a two pounds credit better than paying
an overdraft fee
© Rachel Green February 2025
I.VIII
Three screws in each of three attached hinges
(and three by three will make a trinity)
a cry of pain as driver slips: she whinges
as drops of blood run down from palm cut deep.
No band-aid for the artist who is brave
and binds the wound with kitchen towel and tape
but all the blood-drenched tissues she will save
perhaps for art, perhaps for jolly jape.
And by and large the door is wrestled free
from out its frame and now is leaned instead
against the wall, the better her to see
what image may unfold deep from her land of dread.
© Rachel Green February 2025
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