/ UNLOCKING
at night he disassembles himself
unlocking the joints from their wet
sockets he places them
in ivory boxes
and in the morning, somehow
I saw him eating breakfast turning
the pages of a magazine his fingertips
the same as if they’d never been unzipped at all.
Owen Vince is a writer and poet living in west Wales, and studied literature as a postgraduate. His writing has appeared in NNATAN, Carve, and Igloo Magazine.