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home/bound

home/bound

 

The pebbled path        haunts  me gently

like the drifting thought        behind

my mind. Coming to the surface

on        manuscript days        and loose-leaf

nights. The way it        winds to the door

and ends with grace.       The way I ran

on summer mornings when      the ground

was still cool enough for bare feet.

I am undone         a little.

I can see it from my office window,

the            grave-markers   of living 

in a childhood home        condemn 

me softly. Each pebble        whispering 

some new         memory as my son

runs     barefoot under        my window,

I am   ink-stained and    guilty

of never writing            enough of me,

of the gentle                 opening in me,

of the deeply                familiar novelty

that is a         pebbled path 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Emma McCoy is a poet, writer, and student trying her best. Her work can be found in places like Seaborne Magazine, Paddler Press, The Crux, and Catfish Creek. She is currently working on her first chapbook.

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