A Heart That’s Been Broken by Maureen Owen

Maureen Owen

A Heart That’s Been Broken by Maureen Owen

T.

I’m the boat you leave behind. Somewhere they are singing,

I could never belong to you

.

A Heart That’s Been Broken

Maureen Owen

A heart that’s been broken

has a tiny hinge

And when it happens a

second or third time

it just

swings open & shut

like a gate.

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