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‘Splinted’, by Ruth Victoria Chalkley

/ Anthology / By strongs


 
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.

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