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At the rear of the drawer, an argyle without its mate nuzzles something turquoise, fuchsia and polyester, which it wouldn't ordinarily do but the brightly-striped creature also lost her mate and now they're a mismatched couple smooching in a booth at an all-night café. She leans into his woolen comfort and traces careful stitches— How precisely they intersect the diamonds! How dependably the diamonds repeat, the pattern moving from wine to stone to wine again, all the way to heel and toe, which are gray and reassuring and impossible to endure.
Jackie Craven has recent poems in AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, and River Styx. She's the author of Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2018) and a chapbook, Our Lives Became Unmanageable (Omnidawn, 2016), winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Award. www.JackieCraven.com
