Crack recovery

Samantha Boswell

This photo is a rough draft  versions

rewrite into something less

monstrous than reality  2.0 muddies water

colours  sketches 3.1-3.3 flense memory

skins terse as architecture wrap Doug’s Deli

in Sambo’s Lunchbar / unpick commercial strips to reanimate

Doug’s sighs, brisk scuba-dive-bubbles /  our daughters erupt

blonde sprites with school sores, sassy chokehold

necklaces, ear-cabling to buds, Sailor Moon socks,

fifty cents

for mixed lollies      / snap /

unlock me, too, different handy store, same age, peeing on their floor

while a queue mires in village gossip > busting <   recall

how witnesses calculate shame to finagle reports  upline

to Nanna?  that door closes on a persistent bell / graft wormholes

towards a surveillance century  putty over to jam cracks