Adam Breier
The Space Between Fingers
We had it pinched
in the places where
it was right
desperately tight
neglecting the places where
it was not
making it malleable, which it always was
of course
though we managed to make it
more so, pinching
as hard as we were
blinding ourselves
to how, had we just moved
the moveable
the spaces between our fingers
the pressures we applied
might not have made the beautiful, bulbous
the serene, slippery
a thing strangled
with no choice but to save itself
wriggling free
through those
very spaces we made.
Adam Breier is a Yonkers, NY based poet and educator. He has one published poetry chapbook, An Odor of His Own, with poetry and short fiction appearing in: friends of friends, Mad Persona Magazine, Broken Stone Review, Thistle and Thread Press, Bristol Noir, Stone Poetry Quarterly, So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, ‘Merica Magazine, Soul Fountain, and Outsider Ink.