#Bitter Experience (for Oates and Chekhov)

[academyoftheheartandmind]

Bitter Experience and Other Poems

By Katherine Orfinger Bitter Experience (for Oates and Chekhov) and I understand now why Anna held herself to a godly standard and why she needed to make those little lines, their lives seeping together my head, a dim bathroom: she paces. my own soul peers through a speckled mirror a forgotten piece of metal glints in the harsh light she ignores the door, wide open. takes the hard way…