After You

POETRY
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By Jonathan Duckworth 

A fly will strike its head ninety times

before it finds an open window.

 

The heart beats, metronomic,

clocklike, but incorrect at all points of the day.

 

The spider on its web

I sit & feel

 

the dust not stirred by your feet,

all the doors left closed.

 

Colder out now,

I warm my hands around the light

 

of the moon

you painted on our wall.

 

About the author

Jonathan Duckworth

Jonathan Louis Duckworth received his MFA from Florida International University. His fiction, poetry, and non-fiction appears in New Ohio Review, Fourteen Hills, Meridian, Tupelo Quarterly, Jabberwock Review, Superstition Review, Flash Fiction Online, and elsewhere. His chapbook “Book of Never” is forthcoming with Finishing Line Press.

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