Sara Clancy

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Narcissa Has a Moment

I wish I saw myself
flickering on this river
of ice cold chance,
my long hair brushing
the surface and the sudden
flash of my face still young.
I am invisible now to all
but my old accomplices
and they can only see us
in stories. I will dip my hand
into one, but in its ripples
I only see your fingers
rifling though an accordion file
of hurts while the sky reflects
them back to us.

Sara Clancy a Philadelphia transplant to the Desert Southwest. Her chapbook Ghost Logic won the 2017 Turtle Island Quarterly Editors Choice Award and her poems have appeared in Off the Coast, The Linnet's Wings, Crab Creek Review, The Madison Review, among other places. She lives in Arizona with her husband, their dog, two normal cats and a psychotic cross-eyed one.