the clock once ticked was smothered. Fire erased
the proof that you and I were ever we,
destroyed posed photos taken by the sea;
hot water roiled over you and me.
Jean Free is pursuing her
Masters degree at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where she lives with
her husband and daughter. Her poetry has appeared in Snow Monkey, The Little
Patuxent Review, and is forthcoming in The Raintown Review.
