“Extractions” by Shannon K. Winston (poetry ’18)
“Extractions” by Shannon K. Winston (poetry ’18), published by the Cumberland River Review.
Extractions
Picture this:
me and my mother
on our hands and knees
tearing up an orange
shag carpet
in our old apartment.
Peeling back foam
and mold, we groped
our way to wood.
We’re fixing up the place,
my mother said,
but I was already dreaming
of Paris. Of the men
in Gustave Caillebotte’s
painting Les raboteurs de parquet.
[… continue reading “Extractions” at the Cumberland River Review.]
