5.9.08

And after the lull
is fiercely torn away,
we shrug,
and decide it was but the wind
screaming by.

Days later,
her body surfaces,
like a perverse aquatic phoenix.

Just some drifter, they shrug,
as she drifts by.

7 comments:

. said...

I would make a "dust in the wind" reference, but that would only take away how real this post is to me.

km said...

Have you seen Robert Altman's "Short Cuts"?

DewdropDream said...

If only that were the Titanic

Anonymous said...

Whoa, terrifying imagery! Lovely work.

Vaudevillian said...

i can has new shortened bloggername?

*shrugs*

Cynic in Wonderland said...

..sounds like life. also.

??! said...

.:
Say this didn't happen to you.

KM:
Umm...no. Why?

DDD:
Existing melodrama wasn't enough?

javits:
Thankee. And hello.

Vaudey:
hereyougo. And hello.

Cynic:
Happens, no?