Splitting

Splitting Ice

Like standing
on splitting ice
one foot on one
one on the
other piece.
Distressed like
the family of man
at the divorce
of the plates:
some cast into
a suddenly new
world as though
having sinned;
those kept behind
trapped and
bereft. But in
person, one
foot will lift
and the split
resolve. So
why do the
self-saved
feel half left?

KAY RYAN

The Threepenny Review
Winter 2011

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