UNWANTED RING.

A WOMAN TRIES TO REMOVE A RING GIVE BY HER EX LOVER.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You want to get
Off the ring he
Gave, the small bright

 

Diamond shines
As you move it
Round, trying to

 

Ease it off the
Skin, but it won’t
Budge, it’s stuck still

 

Beneath the fine
Finger’s knuckle,
The pain of you

 

Pulling has made
It red. Leave it
There instead part

 

Of you insists, but
No, you want no
Part of him or

 

His given gifts
Anywhere near
Your flesh longer

 

Than you need, you
Push and pull, you
Nearly make it

 

Bleed, the knuckle
Will not allow
The ring to go.

 

You bathe it in
Some washing up
Liquid, oil it

 

In and twist the
Ring around and

Round and all the

 

Time the small bright
Diamond shines
Away. You pause

 

And leave the ring
And ring finger
Be. The pinkie

 

Skin once pinched and
Thin is swollen
Now, the knuckle

 

Red, the small ring
Remains like a
Dull bruise, like some

 

Deadly poison
There darkly stains.

Reviews

[just rose.]

The series of poems surrounding this photograph are so full of hurt and this interesting rapproachement of go-away, come-closer, but the lover becomes almost besides the point -- it's the narrator struggling with herself that is the real relationship here. Bravo as always Terry.