by Foy Timms
Dignities ago, on the hindsight balcony, she dangles a different
pair of eyes across long ago decisions, lonely fingerprint
decisions obscured by dust.
She lives along the collar bone of the starving outside,
deaf to the bread screams within, her reluctant motherhood face
propped up on a swing.
Parental maps of shame and disappointment overlap in cluttered
rooms, under chopping board thunder.
April bereaved her apart from younger mothers whose words
overreach from the school gates
Those collateral bit part weddings dissipate behind walls
as she folds into a frown and turns away.
Foy Timms is a poet/writer based in Reading, Berkshire, UK. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Fevers of the Mind Poetry Digest, Glove, Hypnopomp, Merak Magazine, North of Oxford, Peeking Cat Poetry, Pulp Poets Press, Selcouth Station Press, and Twist in Time, among others. She is preoccupied with themes such as displacement, departure, solitude, British towns/villages, social exclusion, and the sociopolitical dimensions of living spaces. On Twitter @FoyTimms, on Instagram @foytimms.
