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My Alleged Accident

Poetry Off the Shelf

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Contrico - The Whiplash Motion

The opening poem is called " contrico" The title refers to the whiplash motion that occurs when your head is thrown back and then forward. It's about a woman who waits for her daughter after she was injured in an accident. She can't tell you where she is, though the depths were in her,. wailing where I waited, where the sirens skirting the corner, the vehicle still leagues away from rescue.

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