His waiting has a history of its own.
The rustled impatience of splintered stars
holds out for no one and if he were thinking
about cheating you couldn’t tell by his puckered
forehead or from his glutinous voice, the new
girl at work is too suggestive of youth, of
the descending angles at the edge of shade.
I spy on him by ear, my round limbs hunkered
in bushes, all I can see from here are his
uncertain toes, no words to hold my tongue.
Ashley-Elizabeth Best is from Cobourg, ON, Canada. She has been published in Stuart Ross's anthology 529, by Carolyn Smart in Lake Effect Five, The Changing Image, and The Antigonish Review's Poet Grow-Op. Recently she received an honourable mention at the Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Awards in Kitchener, and was on the poetry shortlist for the 2011 Matrix Litpop Awards. She has a short story forthcoming with the litzine Metazen and poetry forthcoming in the Red River Review, In/Words and Fox Chase Review. During the summer of 2011 she is blogging for Kingston's Writerfest. Currently she is completing her BA in History and English at Queen’s University in Kingston.
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These are very beautiful. Don’t let ENGL @ Queens change you.