Pause Poem by Laurence Overmire

Pause

Rating: 5.0


Halfway across the road
Time stopped

The ninth life spent
Fur blowing in the wake of a passing car
The last twitching of a whisker

Someone’s
Broken heart.


(Previously published in The Short North Gazette, June 2000)

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