In Mind's Eye

Published in Trillium, Volume 12

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This place is a box,

The walls the width of a retina.

The screen shows familiar things

That I can’t recognize.

At what point am I allowed

To yank the handle

Of the unlocked door,

Or do I pretend to belong

To this cell until it dies?

Or maybe

I use this prison to scream

Echoes to the world

Of what exists within,

Yet without,

The tangible.