[Don't] Call Me in the Morning

You handed me a pair of scorpions
and a glass of water.  My time-out
prescription:  to drink.  I am
supposed to ignore self-
preservation and pre-conceived notions
of the obvious and rely solely
on your judgment. 
Denied.  You
show your poison colors.  I was
right.  It was the hand that feeds
that really bites.

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A.J. Huffman has published seven solo chapbooks and one joint chapbook through various small presses. Her eighth solo chapbook, Drippings from a Painted Mind, won the 2013 Two Wolves Chapbook Contest. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and her poetry, fiction, and haiku have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, Bone Orchard, EgoPHobia, Kritya, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation. She is also the founding editor of Kind of a Hurricane Press.