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Estranger

By Tyler Barney
Fall 2022 | Poetry

Maman died tomorrow

or yesterday maybe

i can’t seem to forget

how these things happen

always fearing i’ll see her

everywhere i don’t go

in blinks between glances

i’ve been seeing someone

at the movies: her head

floating up on the screen

on the beach: her body

washing up on the shore

in my arms: her absence

making its presence known

if i had a choice i wouldn’t

go to her funeral again

Tyler Barney is a copywriter and freelance journalist based in Jacksonville, Florida. His writing has appeared in Orlando Weekly and online at CVLT Nation, Perversion Magazine, and Vocal. Tyler’s first chapbook, Days on End, was published by Popnihil in 2016, and his forthcoming novelette, Unclean, is currently in Submittable purgatory.


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