Making Sound, Not Speaking

Leigh Fisher
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

words don’t work anymore,
they can’t open the door

they can’t light the way to a better path
i try to make sense of things, but it doesn’t add up in the math

conversations don’t heal either of us
we just open our mouths and pretend we must

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Leigh Fisher

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Writer and poet from Neptune. No, not the farthest planet from the sun, but Neptune, New Jersey. I work in communications and instructional design in NYC.

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