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  Cover Issue 17 A ROOM UNDER WATER
by NIKKI HARLIN		 Home  
   
 

I couldn't hear before I saw cracks

in the ceiling, buckets and buckets

filled. This room remembers the rupture,

the calm pipe before it bursts

through amnesia's blank walls.

I arrived at this memory

through a faucet left to run.

A face in the mirror is conjured

by spells of breath. I leave my hands

to satiate in disturbed waters and tilt

my head into the rift
   
   

 

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Nikki Harlin is an MFA candidate at California State University, San Bernardino where she writes poetry. Her poem The City Flesh appears in the Halloween 2015 issue.



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