Eugenie Simpson

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Grandmothers of Syria

We've seen you
on our large screens screaming
or stunned with eyes brimful
of grief too large to cipher
through even several sittings.
We wait through the commercial
break that drains enough
juice we scarcely notice
afterimages. Later
perhaps we'll dream
of wandering in knots
of fallen plaster and wake
coughing as if we too breathed
only dust.

Eugenie Simpson lives and writes in Bellingham, Washington where she enjoys the company and inspiration of many other writers. Her themes circle around the experiences of relationship, mortality and the body. Her poems have appeared in cold drill, Psychopoetica, Bille Murray Denny Winner Anthology and Cirque.