MRI
By
Jackie Fox
It thuds and clanks
like tennis shoes
in a dryer, only
I am the shoe,
sour, damp and
wedged into
the narrow
metal tube,
heart clanging.
like tennis shoes
in a dryer, only
I am the shoe,
sour, damp and
wedged into
the narrow
metal tube,
heart clanging.
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We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2013 by Jackie Fox. Poem reprinted from Bellevue Literary Review, Volume 13, no. 2, Fall 2013, by permission of Jackie Fox and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2024 by The Poetry Foundation.