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

by DANETTE GRIFFIN

Danette Griffin is a human being who writes so as to scratch meaning into the external world because the silence would otherwise be deafening.