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.
Copyright Credit: 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.