![]() ![]() With the brunt of his intention, neutralizingĬasey FitzSimons has poems in Red Wheelbarrow, Mezzo Cammin, The Massachusetts Review, and numerous other print and online journals and anthologies. Her self-determination or her lack of it,īack to her, scattering her last thoughts Of retinal image, allow his face to drape What she needed to do was to assemble them ![]() Of his muscular rush away from her, a hot eddy What he sees, what he might be looking at, but Hers and Dave’s: Recognizing by sound, feel, smell Of her self-absorption, with having missedĮvery clue, every cue. With the autumn flutter of their turning? With the benzene of magazine pages? Wrinkled Had he been reading? Was the air faintly laced Know about her? Turning it off, does he complyĪnd railed at her sensory memory for order, That Dave didn’t already, shouldn’t ever, The soft hairs of his stomach her fingers Jet, a chevron of geese over a reedy swamp. Of the ever-popular setting sun that people If she relaxed? Some fey algorithm decode itself Hearing a rustle in the hedge today, she tried ![]() But she was stoic, stony,Ītmospheric refraction. The sinking dwarf (yellow) and its hoveringĪgainst her teeth? For her chin to tremble? Of course. Through rents in clouds, the fading distinction Parsing (rehearsed in part?) of fog advancing, rays Of hope from the welling-up, brimming-overĭid he steel himself? How could she tell?), Perhapsīy the ironclad portcullis of traumatic stress, occludedīy the stygian pyrotechnics of false-firing optic nerves. Kinetic memory of whereĪ vague, unascertainable attribute. Its collection would remain in her mind, secureĪgainst damage and diminution, intuitivelyĪnd dress unaided. Of sighted consumption: Indolent, purposeless gazing. This together-coming, it is also and onlyįastidiously catalogued-her visual library Into his left side she turns and he adjusts Slack but still acknowledging her, brushing Their bodies’ heat to the oven-hot room, stifling In sympathy, aiding, abetting each other, failing herīlackness-placid, unredolent, antiseptic-īillowing the sheet, releasing it, adding Places with itself from time to time, reddening,Įxtinguishing itself, piercing with white flashes She could hear the noise coming from somewhere-Īnd there was the light of the world outside.īut they had nothing to do with each other. Nears, recedes, nears again, a feint, not onlyĪnd distance. ![]()
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