Poetry

The Point

It is here

on this point and no other—
where insanity gives way to infinity—
that the angel has
danced.

It is here
where infirmity gives way to impunity
that a woman who has never seen or heard angels
can’t stop writing about them,
spirit squeezing into pen
and trying to break out the point
to leave at least a trace
of ectoplasmic blood on the
page.

It is here,
just here,
that she loses the point
each
time.

Denise Thompson-Slaughter

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