By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
I knew this woman, a girl really.
Kept painting her apartment different colours.
Her unhappiness with herself externalized
and splashed over all those walls.
A new colour every other week.
As though a change of colour would change
her circumstances, her life.
But nothing ever changed except the paint.
Barely a chance to dry, before she was at it again.
Maybe all that painting kept her busy.
So she wouldn’t have to sit in silence.
With the terrible truth of herself.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Borderless Journal, GloMag, Red Fez, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.
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