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After Solitary Confinement

Mary Stone

You dial to say you are finished
rubbing matches on eyelids, finished
cracking heads against concrete walls.
You dial to write down my address on a used envelope,
to forget the image of a sliding blue sled
tied to the pick-up, your cheeks, splotched
with cold, pink, how everything on your face
jiggled when you mowed over the snow, laughing.

I try to invoke a younger brother in my speech
but your breath is starch sprayed on prison clothes.

You say my name like needles are in your arms.

A padded cell is built into your voice; your sighs
lack the draft of a freer space, flutter
into the phone, muffled insulation between dry walls,
yes’s and no’s fiberglassing moments

of silence between us, the sound of your paper gown
a hue of death, like the rustle of dried leaves
browning in the sun.



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