Alison Mcbain
Thumbs
sitting in the window,
she watches sun storms—
bluebottles suiciding valiantly
against their reflections
that night,
she sups from acorn caps
holds a grain of corn in two hands
gets drunk from a thimble
when put in a pocket
she fears the idle hand
the abyss of a dog’s mouth
a fall to the ground
in mother’s palm,
she contemplates omissions—
a misplacement of giants
a world forbidden
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Alison McBain lives in Connecticut with her husband and three daughters. She has over forty publications in magazines and anthologies, including Flash Fiction Online, Abyss & Apex and Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine. You can read her blog at alisonmcbain.com or chat with her on Twitter @AlisonMcBain.
Editor’s Note: The image is from LOT 35, Menzies Fine Art Auctioneers & Valuers:
Childhood By The Sea, Popping Blue Bottles by John Olsen 2010, oil on linen.
