Lawnmower
The hidden tension of feeling life, so deeply, almost to the point of pain.
Sarah Teal Axelrod’s latest piece for Aphrodite Press pairs the mundane task of cutting grass with a hidden tension of feeling life, so deeply, almost to the point of pain. The rhythm of the haiku mirrors a mower passing back and forth in a relentless loop, like a repetitive thought the reader cannot escape.
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Wailing lawnmower pass by again
I want to
feel you cut each blade
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