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Phobias Begin When I Get Married

Diane Fleming

A stranger’s gaze telescopes
from his car into my lap.

Everything moves fast
like a flood. I can’t escape

into a memory of cake.
No nails left to chew.

That song about him leaving?
It pulls my head in two.

If I could blacken the windows
and shrink, I could stop this fear

from thrumming a rut in my head.
But dread wrinkles my sight.

Now I can’t go here, I can’t go there.
I just stay home where nothing goes

wrong or right, or changes. People think
I am a plant, my tongue a leaf.

My roots beg for a drink
of clean water.



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