Michelle Hendrixson-Miller
In the Ether of Disappointing, Not Devastating News
The smell of boiled eggs. The rattle of glass bottles
in a plastic bag. Under the flicker of fluorescent lights,
the convenience store clerk drops one quarter of change
into my hand. The world is built on so many forms of genius.
Chris tells me about a man who lives to repair
clocks, how jittery he gets just talking about clocks.
I need a doctor who is triggered that way about the body,
the intricate miracles of its machinery.
I sense it often now, the slightest shift in weather,
the hope before the hope of rain. In a letter to Fitzroy,
Darwin writes, My second life shall begin and it will be
like a birthday for the rest of my life. Resilience
is a genius for survival. Brilliance: wet trees,
wet road, rain like little opals collecting on every window.
Michelle Hendrixson-Miller lives in Columbia, Tn. She received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte where she served as poetry editor of Qu Literary Magazine. Her poems have recently appeared in Josephine Quarterly, Main Street Rag, Moth, One, Adirondack Review, Still, The Fourth River, and Mudfish.
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The smell of boiled eggs. The rattle of glass bottles
in a plastic bag. Under the flicker of fluorescent lights,
the convenience store clerk drops one quarter of change
into my hand. The world is built on so many forms of genius.
Chris tells me about a man who lives to repair
clocks, how jittery he gets just talking about clocks.
I need a doctor who is triggered that way about the body,
the intricate miracles of its machinery.
I sense it often now, the slightest shift in weather,
the hope before the hope of rain. In a letter to Fitzroy,
Darwin writes, My second life shall begin and it will be
like a birthday for the rest of my life. Resilience
is a genius for survival. Brilliance: wet trees,
wet road, rain like little opals collecting on every window.
Michelle Hendrixson-Miller lives in Columbia, Tn. She received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte where she served as poetry editor of Qu Literary Magazine. Her poems have recently appeared in Josephine Quarterly, Main Street Rag, Moth, One, Adirondack Review, Still, The Fourth River, and Mudfish.
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