Annabel Banks
Double Shift
now she sleeps under him
so used to armpit exhale
she double-breaths her dreams
he sleeps now without thinking
heated roving palm tectonics
burn these damp and jutted joints
killing nerves to wake up numb,
dead-handed and unable
to soothe asleep the stirring day.
Annabel Banks is working towards her practice-based poetry PhD at University College Falmouth.