[Critique Group 2] Jon's December pick

[Joan Myles]

Dearest Friends,

Here is my submission for our December session, another contender for my
next volume.

Grateful for you!
Joan
***Between You and Me

Between one man and another man

Space trembles under the weight of expectation.

Between women there is only judgment,

And it  fills all space.

Like  wind rattles a gate,

Judgment pushes past a woman’s  skin

And seeps into her blood’s flow

Until all she is puffs up and up.

Until every word she speaks

Speaks like a gavel pounding.

Until  the pounding is her own heart beating,

And she yields to the hammer.

Yields

Like the precious metal she aspires to be.
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