Maureen Kingston

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A Wishbone Kind of Love

He lifts her, en pointe,
above his head.

Their pas de deux
a tangle of desire
and trench warfare,

bayonets crossing,
breast to breastplate.

Acute angles strain,
threaten to snap
their fragile junction.

Maureen Kingston lives and works in eastern Nebraska. She is an assistant editor at The Centrifugal Eye. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Constellations, Emerge Literary Journal, Lily, The Meadowland Review, Big River Poetry Review, Rufous City Review, Stone Highway Review and Terrain.org.