I am missing
my selves sister
spread across seas
like ancient constellations
calling sailors home
cups and arrows
swimming over skies
but in rising
tides I cannot
find my own
beginning or end
wade through waters
hoping to send
messages to mark
my body back
to whole but
I only fail
to chart course
scattered like salt
and slowly dissolving
across bitter seas.
Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice. She is also the author of Halfway from Home, Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, and three poetry chapbooks. Abbreviate, a short collection of flash nonfiction, is forthcoming. She is an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University.