[22] "Segments"

Segments

By Deidre Price

To be pulled off, pulled away,

pierced and undone,

to be made passive, put upon,

then set upon a table,

shielded with a napkin,

not knowing

whose side they're protecting.

To be pressed into again,

those pieces spread too wide and apart,

a second separation from the self,

a second inspection that will tell

only answers you already know.