Amy Corbin
Amy has had her work published in filling Station, The Cynic, Ascent Aspirations, Shine Journal, Every Day Poets, Every Day Fiction, Haruah: A Breath of Heaven, Ignavia Press, Flask and Pen, The Battered Suitcase, Short Story Library, Flashes in the Dark, Smokebox, and Boston Literary Magazine.
Latchkey kid
go home in that filthy dress
wait for your frazzled mom
she tells you to do it yourself
worked hard all day
tired
Watch the clock
Tick
Cry at the Formica table
in your dingy kitchen
scrape peeling wallpaper
with chipped painted nails
while the encrusted cereal bowl
stares
What time is it?
Tock
Imagine a different life
where dinner is cooked
the bath towel doesn’t reek
like an old lady’s attic
and men with tattoos don’t fondle you
pretend
Watch the clock
Tick
© Copyright 2009 Amy Corbin