“Slippage” by Kim Hamilton (poetry ’16)

An excerpt from “Slippage” by Kim Hamilton (poetry ’16), published by Iron Horse Review.

Slippage

We need to hear everything twice these days.
Click click of rabbit teeth in wildgrass.

These days tick, a metronome
counting down the dawn’s double

whammy: golden purse, timed bomb.
The skeleton of yesterday rises, holds watch

dial with its faint echo against cold bone.

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