My core does not speak
in Classic Greek hexameters
or return to the left margin.
It is a scallop shell, a snake
shedding its skin, with an infinite supply of words and pages
to turn over.
Yet, my whole is recorded
on a single, foreboding page.
38 years of life.
One exposed solitary page.
George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, the Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s blogs, essays and letters have appeared in the USA Today, Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Havana Times, the South China Morning Post, the Buffalo News, and more.