polite until the grave

By Asa B. Brooks

my quiet rage is
a cage of dead bones, i think.

​i’m in my own jaws.

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​Asa B. Brooks is a disabled nonbinary poet who lives somewhere in a forest in the remote New England wilderness. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Larina’s Lit Lounge, Up North Lit, and Wild Hyacinth Magazine.