Two of a Kind
- Two of a Kind
My wife passed away.
Her name was Barbara:I used to call her Ba.
A man on a trainrealizes he dropped
his gloveon the platform.
My name is Lawrence:She called me La.
As the train leavesthe station, he drops
the other glovefrom the window,
When she died,I changed my name to Bala.
so someonecould have the pair. [End Page 106]
Deborah Flanagan
deborah flanagan’s chapbook, Or, Gone, was the winner of Tupelo Press’s Snowbound Chapbook Award. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Pleiades, and Drunken Boat. She lives in New York City.
