Barbara Reynolds
The Allegation: 1991, 2018
Peaking from her lips
like a solitary drop
from an unfiltered faucet,
a limpid bold bead
trembling on the brink
of pronouncement,
it plunges, pursued
by a brackish surge
that swallows it whole.
Barbara Reynolds teaches and writes in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has an MA in Critical and Creative Thinking and is an adjunct professor at Lesley University’s Graduate School of Education. Her poems have appeared in Avocet, Weekly Avocet, What Rough Beast, and are forthcoming in the Muddy River Poetry Review.
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