Arsenika

a magazine of speculative flash fiction and poetry

by Kimberly BMW Wade

Issue 8

40 lines

Perhaps we are all translated, transformed in
our travels, turned in our journeys, changed
in our exchanges every day. But I am broken.
  A single synapse moved and settled
in a
   different    quadrant  of
                 my brain.
 An
artery     never
               reached   my
    left
     hand.
                  Memories
                rewired or
                 gone. I
                  am
              altered. No one will
             know. No one will notice.
             Not even I will   see
             my  losses. I    am
             full  of light,    full
          of   space     as empty
                           and
              celestial
            as
                 the space I
                       traveled.
                 It is  the
                 wild  and
                 wise  way
           of  progress
                  in this  moment
                       pulled
               together
          after being
              pulled    apart.
A patchwork person stitched with science put forth on a
teleporter—leaving lightyears littered with precious pieces.
A specimen of success destroyed by destiny, destination.
Broken. Rent. I return here and now—only somewhat whole.

©2021 by Kimberly BMW Wade

Kimberly BMW Wade lives in Ohio with her husband and her two cats. She has published as a poet, illustrator, and obituary writer. Most recently, Kimberly has been published in the Coffin Bell journal of dark literature, Eye to the Telescope literary magazine, Tequila Kraken: An AWFUL Publication, and received honorable mention for the 2019 SFPA Contest. For more information, visit her website at kimberly-bmw-wade.weebly.com.