Open Door: Anaphora

Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis

Open Emergency Room door a mother delivers her baby into Todd’s jacket.

Open the Walter Reed street door to husband-shenanigans to inflame his wife. 

Open freight elevator doors and gape at groping employees coupling.

Open door. “Knock, knock?” barge in. Startle gossip stops within.

Open door to gasp at other people’s silk.

Open door to beach town antique shop’s petrified cobra in his upright strike pose.

Open door kitchen cupboard door the cockroach jumps.

Open door to the playhouse that was once a sow’s brood house.

Open doors don’t close any door ever to cats in any room every room.

Open your door your barn door open.

Open doors from the out of doors into farmhouse doors so many doors you count

doors on all fours to get the doors right not one of those

Open doors lock.

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Flash Issue 7

Elizabeth Wadsworth Ellis was an outside child, conceived outside marriage, wed outside her culture, served outside her country in Serbia, Sofia and Russia, and holds beliefs outside her upbringing. She has jumped outside airplanes.