Tipping Point (2025), Lilli Geyer

SHADOWBOXING

Miranda Argyros


                         I am relentless with my hands                                                   I am the arm that is swinging and I am the swinging  my hands are every place 

                     I did not want my body                                                  pulled from the fall unless it were pulled by the right pair of hands  the right hands are air hands

                 I am the open air that strikes me often                                                    I fall staring to the screen overhead and singing tough-jawed and slung like a coin

                         I am the mouth laid open and fitted                                                  as gloves. I am not simple I am the plunge from my fist’s pocket 

Miranda Argyros is a writer from New York. She is a teacher and learner of English at the University of Connecticut, where she is pursuing doctoral studies.