Karen McCarthy

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smudged words on my fingertips
my companions on this
smudged day
maybe I'm just waiting for the rain to
stop
and the streets are that black patent leather
I remember from childhood shoes
although
I can't remember when or where I wore them

Karen McCarthy has lived all her life within 3 miles of I-75. Philosopher by training and librarian by profession, when not living the life of the mind she can be found enjoying her cats and her wife. You can find more of her work at Waffle Fried and the Cosmic Daffodil Journal. She is on Bluesky at klmwrites.bsky.social, sort of.