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A Mistress To No One But Time

By Ryan Quinn Flanagan

Visage aux cheveux bouclés (1956) – Pablo Picasso (1891 -1973). Courtesy: Creative Commons
cordant umbilical, 
a mistress to one but Time; 
that flurry of falsehoods, coats of paint  
sporting jammed zippers, 
dredging lakes of hard sink water  
with cracked cups for hands, 
persistent blackheads in the facial tick  
lime disease grass 
when something catches your eye  
like an errant frisbee  
from freckled double-dare water-winged children  
of the long splashing summer

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 The Oklahoma Review. 

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Poetry

Least Resistance

By Ryan Quinn Flanagan

‘All along the path of least resistance’

	
All along the path of least resistance  
suppurate crab apples mirror various imprecisions, 
oft-movement brought to staggering halt, 
indolent loafers, a patchwork of mismatched cobbles, 
the fustiness of well-furrowed brow, 
neglected outgrowth sprung from tweezer absentia, 
retired overturned tub stop in a murphy-bed of moss – 
about that letter you promised to send last month, 
nothing yet, but I must admit an infrequent search, 
fits of distraction, a surreptitious lack of mettle bordering  
on dereliction; what can be lost in due course beyond present  
purview when dockyard slat meets slapping barnacled hull: 
something shared not knowledge, something roof-stuck  
to salty chattering roundabout mouths.

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, Setu, GloMag, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.

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PLEASE NOTE: ARTICLES CAN ONLY BE REPRODUCED IN OTHER SITES WITH DUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO BORDERLESS JOURNAL