Alicia Mooney-Flynt

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Aftermath

2 hands and 1 body lined
with age, all points at zero X,
not sure of Y –some days 2
in his equation, most days 1
on the grid because I complain
and why shouldn't I? 37
and that's it: 37 = 1. This mystery
of X and Y not plotting a point–
no dot on the line, no egg
becoming. It's both of us really.
I formulate that I am the margin
of error, and he doesn't talk
or touch now: sex = work.

Alicia Mooney-Flynt's work has been read in Florida Humanities, Kalliope, Poet Lore, and other publications. She is from the north (Syracuse, New York) and lives in the south (North Carolina). This is just one example of how her life is full of irony and the beauty of contrast.