This poem is taken from Stand 236, 20(4) December 2022 - February 2023.

Jessica Harkins Mine
i.

Instinctively, I keep this shell unexploded.
I do not want demons to go flying from it
against the brightness of day:
it may be my heart they hold together; 
it may be that they are the shrapnel.
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