5
RAISE HER
Pinprick to wrist
Base,
Thinner
This skin
In vein
Ambivalence
A pulse there
Suspended cut
Lingers,
With urge to
Amend
The hole
In the end
Impulse wrought there
Danette Griffin is a human being who writes so as to scratch meaning into the external world because the silence would otherwise be deafening.