"By far the most common cause
of a boxer’s fracture is punching a wall.

Can you imagine the sheer asininity?
My mother once put her fist
through drywall, nothing fractured..."

This is from "Boxer's Fracture" by Jackleen Holton published in The Sun.
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Boxer’s Fracture

My mother once put her fist / through drywall, nothing fractured // but that already-broken home, / a little more of her spirit and ours.