Phantoms
By John Tipton
A migraine's aura
swallows an eye
from a face
into gapless, absent
folds of unseeing.
His scars concealed,
the three-legged cat
limps fluidly along
a soft shore
redrawn by storms.
Copyright Credit: John Tipton, "Phantoms" from Paramnesia. Copyright © 2016 by John Tipton. Reprinted by permission of Flood Editions..
Source: Paramnesia (Flood Editions., 2016)