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Broker’s Pick
Ann Gibson

Several upside-down bisque doll heads. The tops of the heads are open/hollow. The head in the middle foreground has blue glass eyes. The two on either side have empty eye holes. The heads have painted lips, cheeks, eyebrows. Some have closed lips and others have open mouths. A cloth doll body is in the background.

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Present in the moment, listening,
attentive to everything that’s said.
Tell me and I’ll remember, input sticks;
who’s doing what, whether I should show.

Minutiae weigh heavy in the head;
brain brims with details, circuits clog.
Keeping track takes its tangled toll,
no space left for flippancy or fun.

You chat, chew the fat with friends,
can’t recall anything you hear;
pay no heed to scuppered lucky chances,
meetings missed, appointments double-booked,
plans thwarted by your absent mind—
I envy you your Teflon, sieve-based brain.

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Ann Gibson spent her childhood in Dublin and now lives in North Yorkshire, UK. She has published poetry in Acumen, Prole, Obsessed with Pipework, Dream Catcher, Orbis, The Poets’ Republic, and various anthologies. Her poetry has also appeared online in The High Window, Algebra of Owls, Lighten Up Online, Snakeskin, Ofi Press Magazine and The Ekphrasis Review. Email: annjmgibson[at]gmail.com

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Poetry
Ann Gibson

A woman sitting at a desk, her right hand on a mouse and her chin resting on her left hand, staring at a computer screen. She is wearing glasses and her hair is pulled back in a pony tail. The only illumination is from the screen; the rest of the room is dark. The desk is scattered with papers and other office supplies.

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Hunched at her workstation
in charity shop cast-offs,
scary hair and attitude,
chewing gum with gusto,
she prepares for implementation.

Her colleagues, flawlessly coiffed,
congregate at the coffee machine
to confer on her sartorial deficiencies.

Unfazed, chin in hand,
she stares at rolling screens;
straightens kinks,
tames tangles, defuzzes flaws
with a few casual mouse clicks.

As the go-live rolls out in sleek waves,
amid spirited self-congratulations
they race to the restroom to preen.

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Ann Gibson spent her childhood in Dublin and now lives in North Yorkshire, UK. She has published poetry in Acumen, Prole, Obsessed with Pipework, Dream Catcher, Orbis, The Poets’ Republic, and various anthologies. Her poetry has also appeared online in The High Window, Algebra of Owls, Lighten Up Online, Snakeskin, Ofi Press Magazine and The Ekphrasis Review. Email: annjmgibson[at]gmail.com