by Jeffrey Turner
Rarely do things end
with a bang
Usually they begin with a lie
in bed wondering what
could have been if
the period had not aligned
with the sun and the moon
in ellipsis
after the many long dashes
in and dashes out then several
more dashes in and out
which bridged the gap
of her moist parenthesis
with his dramatic comma
the question remained
asterisked to a footnote
in the margins of their thought
wallowed and mired in
the damp sheets of their query
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Jeffrey Turner grew up in Plymouth, MA. He received his bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Dickinson College. He is a first year MFA student in fiction at Old Dominion University. His poem “Punctual” received an Honorable Mention in Old Dominion University’s 2011 College Poetry Prize contest, Graduate division.