The staircase only goes to the second floor, but when I look up from the bottomI see eternity stretch out … More
Tag: #Dentists
Age Before Beauty
She asks me how old I amWe’re standing side-by-side at the row of individual sinksI wonder each time I come … More
Roots
He stops drilling into the root canal because I raise my left handTrying my best to hold back a world’s … More
Extraction
It’s at moments like these a man faces his mortalitySmokes that last cigarette to settle his nervesA prisoner facing the … More
Numb
I’ve lived in Madison three years without a teeth cleaningThe dentist, between grunts, tells me I must do this more … More
Before Fluoride
There’s something quirky about his eyesThey vibrate electric, left right left rightTwo butterflies trapped like ratsIn almond-round drains that swirl … More
A Few Words to the Wise
I remember how I lost my teeth, the wisdom onesAll four at one blow to a drillAnd on a tray, … More
My name is Lanning, and I’m a floss-oholic
My addiction began with my bracesThe pain they brought bothering me as nothingCompared to the agonizing torture inflictedBy bits of … More
NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 2, My Teeth
Two things I do know for sure about my first year on this planet. One, I was an aggressive breast feeder. This … More
Lanning Lee 