DOUBLED OVER
MARY ROWIN
I fold bread in half
Maps in quarters
My hands in my lap.
Birds fold wings
Nomads fold their tents
Morning Glories fold at noon.
I slip an origami note
Into my billfold.
Then I cut.
Cut the letter in bits
Tear the note in half
Rip my hands apart.
The bird shoots
From its perch
Before the day ends.
But under a canopy
I fold myself around
The thing I love most.
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Mary Rowin’s poems have been published in Verse Wisconsin, Stoneboat, Solitary Plover and the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Calendar and Museletter. She won second prize in the 2013 Science Fiction Poetry Association contest. Mary’s work also appears in Echolocations, Poets Map Madison published in 2014 by Cowfeather Press. Mary blogs at www.poeticpossibilities.wordpress.com
