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Volume 14 • Number 2 • Fall-Winter 2022-2023

Cameron Morse

On the Rocks

I can rock back
and forth

a little
in the tightening

network
of ligaments

to restore blood flow.
I can wiggle like a tooth.

Far below my blue
toes feel

impossibly distal
trotting along the shore

line without their owners.
Finally my clock says

how long I have
forgotten to look at

my clock, my wife calls.
The lost ubiquitous

dropped hair of her is
sewn into in my neckline.

Cameron Morse (he, him) is Senior Reviews editor at Harbor Review and the author of eight collections of poetry. His first collection, Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award. His book of unrhymed sonnets, Sonnetizer, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books. He holds an MFA from the University of Kansas City-Missouri and lives in Independence, Missouri, with his wife and three children. For more information, check out his Facebook page or website.