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The Shape of Me
Have I been removed from something bigger?
Something gargantuan with jiggerfish capabilities.
Some thing that attracts, precise and cold.
Looking around, I notice cars and trashcans,
and up, clouds suspended in a blue crisp enough to lick.
Can these be my home ship, my grape bunch?
Perhaps they have been sent packing, too, and we all
sit here without motor or navigation, stunned.
I’ll wait with the emptied soup cans and stubs. Or.
Put me back where I fit just to prove there is such.
It is possible that I have been discarded from small.
So small that all my ghosts and angels become each
other and then me with a hinted outline of wings.
No, leave me here where I am unknown but solid.
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Luanne Castle‘s Kin Types (Finishing Line), a chapbook of poetry and flash nonfiction, was a finalist for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Award. Her first poetry collection, Doll God (Aldrich), was winner of the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she studied at University of California, Riverside (PhD); Western Michigan University (MFA); and Stanford University. Her writing has appeared in Copper Nickel, TAB, Glass, Verse Daily, American Journal of Poetry, Broad Street, and other journals.