Donna Gagnon

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Broken

knocked out of joint by a flying word
without a doubt it hurt

cartilage crushed; blood and tear soup
no simmering, all was aboil

cunt, he snarled

bully, she spit

they stared at the mess
bandaged the pain

slept soundly on it
until morning

Donna Gagnon is a poet, playwright and fiction writer from Canada. Recently, her work has appeared in Mnemosyne Journal, Every Day Poets and The Fib Review. She and her husband, Doug Pugh, co-administer The Write Idea online writers' forum and run TheRightEyedDeer Press.