we blink
involuntarily
about a thousand times an hour
every day
everywhere
even underneath a collapsed floor
buried in darkness
under a mass of rubble
where life is trapped vibration
and no sound can penetrate,
escape the fast-thickening air
where one such blink
on camera
is evidence enough
for rescue to proceed
And even if in pandemonium
lifelines down,
involuntarily,
her bowels move,
her bladder
releases
and she is caked
with her own foulness;
concrete dust, filth
she will still praise
the body
that saved her
(First published in Orbis, Issue 79, spring 2017.)
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