Natural Establishment
Ellen Noonan
Razor clams slit
sharp like a wry
smile; my grip on
the wood plane
discovers cursive
rife with minute
splinters. I know you
know: bees are dying
off, colonies collapsing;
I blend edges with a
sooty thumb, assert
shapes erasing. Sure,
I’m sure, never more
than this moment when
a bubble hovers between
pinnacle and absolute
vanishing.
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Ellen Noonan earned her MFA at Emerson College and is a lecturer in the English Department at Northeastern University in Boston. Her writing has been published in the University Reporter, Spectrum, Beacon Street Review, Eunoia Review, and 3Elements Review and she has work forthcoming in Pine Hills Review and Crab Fat Review. She attended the inaugural session of the Ashbery Home School in August 2014.