Aquarium

Audrey Dubois

The creature contracts like a heart,
like a single firing nerve. More impulse
than animal, you think, it’s a generosity
to allow barely a membrane to stand
under a taxonomic umbrella with you–
you, and your rational thinking mind,
your complex senses, fine motor skills,
moral compass, pocket of quarters,
wool socks, soft rock CDs, dry lips,
silver fillings, cherry cough drops,
and the mood ring in the gift shop
that tells you: you are feeling orange.

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Audrey Dubois is a Rhode Island poet and current MFA candidate at Emerson College. Her work has appeared in the Fiddlehead Review, Lily Poetry Review, and Inklette Magazine. She likes unusual antiques, ancient epics, and eating cereal.

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