“On Friday after Three Years’ Silence” by Margo LaPierre
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On Friday after Three Years’ Silence
By Margo LaPierre
A woolly book enters the room—I am
returning a borrow, a rare visit while in town.
It’s two p.m. and there are files rotting
on the stacks with shattered orbs: your reading glasses.
Mosquitoes scallop the walls. You claim
your eyesight has returned like magic
though never notice my knuckles
red from knocking. Your hearing’s still bad.
I remind you of our conversation a decade ago
when we were strident, unambivalent, then pry
a tome from its place in a puff of vinegar,
soil, and marzipan, the decadent bouquet
of paper and glue companioned like
two lifelong lovers, friends. Just barely.
Copyright © Margo LaPierre
Margo LaPierre is a freelance literary editor and writer. Her second poetry collection, Ajar, is forthcoming with Guernica Editions in Fall 2025. She serves on Arc Poetry magazine’s editorial and executive boards and is a member of the Ottawa-based poetry collective VII. She holds an MFA in creative writing from UBC and a publishing certificate from TMU. You can find her work in the Ex-Puritan, CV2, Room, filling Station, CAROUSEL, PRISM, and elsewhere.
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