appealing

The Maynard
Spring 2018

Lauren Turner
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Cracked Fabergé Egg Of Yes

Alison calls my life lost. I haven’t quit
combing the gold curls of eulogies

friends write instead of saying I’m sorry
which is, somehow, too simple

a knot to tie. I won’t be effaced
from scorched earth. Airplanes spiral

pre-crash. Less smoke when dragon
meets butterfly net,

the gravitas of physics plucking flight
from a future’s marrow.

April is as much blooms as it is rot.
Don’t expect differently.