Robin Arble: I go to CVS once a season

I go to CVS once a season

to give my voice to a woman
who takes my name & date

​of birth to access the two
prescriptions waiting for me

​on the shelves behind her.
Just once I want her

to lean forward & whisper
through the glass

if there's anything else
I want to be called

​to feel the shame
of knowing she knew

​enough to ask.

Robin Arble is a poet and writer from western Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared in Midway Journal, Poetry Online, Quarter After Eight, Rejection Letters, and Roi Fainéant Press, among others. They are a poetry reader for Beaver Magazine and The Massachusetts Review. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in literature and creative writing from Hampshire College.

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