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  Double Shift

Carolyn Adams 

 
I’m mired
in long shadow,
colorless,
pulled hard
at a mitered seam.

Coffee steams from a thermos cup.

Stiff arms flex
in a sweat-stained shirt,
smell of cigarettes
and diesel.

Time and a half,
time and a quarter. 

The sun pushes on
just to fall down again.

 

 

 

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Carolyn Adams' last good day was a Thursday.  Her poetry, fiction, art and photography have been published in Urban Spaghetti, Voices in Wartime, Unpleasant Event Schedule, and HazMat Review, among others.  She frequently wears red and her poetry has won awards in contests sponsored by Zuzu's Petals Quarterly and Bayousphere.  She co-edits and co-publishes Curbside Review and is Associate Editor of the Austin magazine Ardent. She thinks Boston cream cake should become a sovereign state.  A collection of her collages appeared in Issue 2 of Right Hand Pointing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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