The camera flashes felt like stars as I plunged
headlong through the table. Two seconds
from ladder to ring. The wood splintered;
a metal bar caught my face. That’s the work.
He grabbed at the belt from the top of the rungs
and I spat out my teeth in my hands.
Julian Day lives in Winnipeg. He is the author of two chapbooks, Orbits (Model Press, 2023) and Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press, 2021).
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