overthought

By Brianne Battye

sternum-born pulse pushes
stilted ellipses of               my own design
(told-me-so-often)
 
the (w)hole of it
leaves me
 
careful as cat paws on the bathtub edge

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Brianne Battye is a writer at BioWare where she has contributed to the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises. Outside the world of video games, her poetry has most recently appeared in Contemporary Verse 2.