After a Certain Point it Wouldn’t Matter Anymore

Such long roots for such a little
face is what the dentist’s assistant
said when I was fifteen and she meant

my molar tight like a terrified animal
hiding inside itself. There is big air
anywhere, it’s important to watch for it,

any opening can widen
where an entire army
could arrive.

laurinda Lind

Laurinda Lind lives in New York’s North Country. Some publications/ acceptances are in Blue Earth Review, Midwest Quarterly, New American Writing, Paterson Literary Review, and Spillway; also anthologies Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (New Rivers Press) and AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss and Grief (Radix Media).