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The Spirit in Between

Tyneil Phillips


If a lion had you in its jaws I would attack it,
If the ropes binding your soul are your own wrists
I will cut them.
��Sharon Olds


She is livid with life.
Her body overextends itself
to electrical outlets supplying
a current of breath
permanently exhaled
one icy afternoon
as she slid into a tangle
of glass and metal,
snow falling on wounds
that wouldn’t heal.

Without a voice
or the use of fingers
to shut herself off
she is a technological casualty
a prisoner of the war
between God and machine
She is the spirit in between.






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