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Dis-Ease

Bill Yarrow

It’s like playing chess in a room without lights.
You feel for the rook and knock over a bishop.
You can’t tell whose pawn is whose but you move
anyway. You realize with a start that all strategy
is tactile, that every attempt to kill the king is a
stab in the dark. But it’s your turn and you’re
surrounded by horses. You can smell them
breathing down your neck. You enlist the aid of
the dark queen but her power flounders because
she doesn’t know where she is. Your own king is
in danger. He inches left toward imagined safety,
insisting a heated corner can stand in for a palace.
Lit by his visionary gleam, the whole board, for one
moment, can be glimpsed, but then subsides into
sudsy blackness. He believes he’s seen his salvation,
but he doesn’t realize only his mate can rescue him.



“Dis-Ease” was first published in THIS Literary Magazine. It appears in Wrench (erbacce-press, 2009) and Pointed Sentences (BlazeVOX, 2012).



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