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Ironing

Devon Sova

What a funny day for napkins
to insist upon perfection.
Yesterday it was my underwear,
but I don’t mind...the numbing sweep
and swish of the iron
helps fill the void
that sometimes suddenly,
unexpectedly,
sucks my breath like a vacuum.
It connects me
in a way, to my mother
and all mothers
who didn’t live
to see their daughters grow.
I know she did this
I say to myself,
but I don’t know what she thought or felt or saw.
I unplug the iron, struggling to remember
something I must have felt
and at one time known.
I wrap the cord around my neck,
thinking
how this could all end
in some pathetic and failed attempt.
Instead,
I unwrap the cord slowly and
cradle the still cooling iron to my chest,
imagining human warmth.

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