Amy Lynn wrong side of the world 1. just little pieces, not important pieces, like soap-suds in the kitchen sink that froth and spit and die gradually and naturally and no longer quite. 2. today the sink is empty. he no longer shares with her tea and pickles at 2 a.m. because neither can sleep — he’s too busy now. she doesn’t anymore leave notes by the toaster because now she’s busy too. 3. only little pieces but big waves salt-sizzling in the heat soot-clouds, wind-bite, battering the small boats, taut sails, persistent — while gradually moon-sky, sun-wet, just little pieces each unnoticed, until the day she turned shoulder/his to take and found it busy on the wrong side of the big world. © westronwynde magazine 2011 isbn-13     978-0- 9732582-4-0