in domestic violence group
they tell us
it takes the average woman
seven to ten attempts
to escape
her abuser
seven to ten
as if we are the hapless
moons of Jupiter
iron filings hiding in the sand
can’t fight their return
to the magnet
the dog staked in the yard
loves her master
but cowers before him
she can’t decide a thing
but hears a whisper
in the whorled safety
of her inner ear:
at some point
you may need
to chew off your own foot
and run through the snow
with what you have left
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