Nancy Mitchell

Low Pressure

He’s drunk, but not
yet fallen. Cold

wind whistling Dixie
through the split

window not fixed
since he put his fist to it.

She washes dishes
in the dusky kitchen, light

bulb in every socket
burned out but one.

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Nancy Mitchell, a Pushcart Prize recipient, is the author of The Near Surround, Grief Hut, The Out-of-Body Shop and The Blood You Come From, forthcoming from Four Way Books.  Her poems have or will appear in journals such as Agni, Green Mountains Review, Ploughshares, The Shore and Washington Square Review. Associate Editor for Plume Poetry, she serves as Salisbury, Maryland’s Poet Laureate.