‘Splinted’, by Ruth Victoria Chalkley

  Today I was issued with hand splints.  Carapaced; oddly reassuring, oddly restricting; Even in their disposition.  I am that crab.  Their bindings have an onomatopoeia: irascible. by Ruth Victoria Chalkley Additional poems hosted on other websites: Tanzkarte NHS;  Carrier Pigeon for Science U.K.