Poem by

STEVE DENEHAN

Surface Tension

So much goes on below

beneath

behind

there are eggshells under the floorboards

there are mice in the walls

there are pulses in my ears

marrow churning in my bones

I read an article about ducks

how eating too much bread causes wing deformity

a wing deformity called “angel wing”

that results in the bird being unable to fly

“angel wing”

they have to paddle furiously in the first place

just to swim

and now this