Overcompensation

Written for dVerse Poets Pubwhere our host, Punam, asksus to write a quadrille basedon the theme “I Protest”. “I’m fine,” she said,then said it twice more ….a tidy protestagainst a truthsitting quietly in her chest.She laughed too fast,smiled too wide,insisting so hard, so often,the whole muted room beganto wonder what,exactly, she was defending. NAR©202644 Words… Continue reading Overcompensation