I cough and roll
from one side of the bed
to the other
under my body
the shards of a past
Atlas Poetica, 19, 2014
A Room of My Own: Stock Ticker Tanka by Chen-ou Liu
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*Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words*, CCXCVI: "stock ticker "
a bruised girl’s hand
clutches a slice of bread
in pixels—
a stock ticker flashes past
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