For the Dealer

After gratitude

I dream

carving steadily

my initials

on your neck.

Piercing perhaps

like slow needles

of heroin

a minute accident

carving a mother’s mark.

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Abbe Mogell is a poet and photographer who resides in Pennsylvania. She recently attended writing workshops at Colgate University and Rosemont College.

When she is not busy with her creative endeavoring she is managing a myofascial release and healing arts practice in Erdenheim, PA. There she works with persons who have chronic pain challenges.