Gargoyle 10
cover image by Borislav O. Milutinovich
publication date 9/20/1978

Isolation

Tina Fulker

all this
boxed up
in dark rooms

mouthing
drowned alarms

cardboard partitions
soaking up the water
as it runs

and the closed
lids

with the shadows
of birds
fluttering their unrest
against dry walls