morning, the air caresses pain-free nights break promise of oblivion meds break into vertigo, nausea time static, eternity sleepless slippery palms on balcony railing she lifts one leg, the other down is far enough becomes bird flightless later her sofa on sidewalk that failed at conviviality unable to hold on to friends. Marie-Andree Auclair is a Canadian poet whose poems have appeared in online and print publications such as Bywords, Canada; The Frogmore Papers, UK; and the