The Jaws of Life

Suspend you by a seat belt
upside down the person you
love crawls out of the wreck

it hurts no one ever told you rain
falls in the direction of your life
people don’t wear skin bones out

no one comes back for you mud
grass cut you open to the sinew
of the world you will walk again

Evalyn Lee is a former CBS News producer and poet currently living in London. She has produced television segments for 60 Minutes in New York and then for the BBC in London. Her broadcast work has received an Emmy and numerous Writers Guild Awards. Her poetry, short stories and essays have been published over 50 literary magazines and she is at work on her first collection. Her favorite sweet is Hotel Chocolate’s Eton Mess

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