Emily Laubham
Pulling Places
Emily Laubham
Pulling Places
The light is changing now.
Still, and same, and lasting.
But changed—tucked in at the edge,
leaving less time for sun and soak,
more time to den down and wait,
safe and warm in a moment.
Except for frogs who found a false pond.
They kerplunked and couldn’t escape,
plucky bodies trapped,
left to swell and freeze in filters
’til spring and summer circle round.
Other Gods forget to check the filters, too,
those pulling places of the world
from which frogs and people can’t escape.
The light is changing faster now.
Leaving sun and soak
to a time and place before cold.
Leaving some of us behind.
Emily Laubham is a writer in Pittsburgh, PA. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in publications including Contrary Magazine, Ping-Pong Literary Magazine, Menacing Hedge, Autumn Sky Poetry, Anti-heroin Chic, Scapegoat Review, and Hyacinth Review. She was recently published as a contributor in the poetry anthology “A Critique of the Gods” and featured as Poet of the Quarter in Rough Diamond Poetry.
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