GRADUALLY. GRADUALLY. BY JEANNE JULIAN
How blues hardened into rock.
How your hair dried in the sun.
How fault lines settled into your brow.
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How blues hardened into rock.
How your hair dried in the sun.
How fault lines settled into your brow.
It is the movement
of the limbs—legato as they say in music
when the drumbeat softens to a brush
and the strings hum on one note
When she left me,
she took pieces of me with her.
Three miles from the High Level Bridge
sun shimmered against the four lanes as if
hundreds of tiny glass beads found
themselves dumped out on Main Street.
Being alive is a commitment
to the earth
and so is being dead
for that matter
coat, a child hops
foot to foot, waiting
for the bus. It is late.
Only a half moon
floats in the heavens
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slant into the wind
confident and keen
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We would run to the pickle barrel and pretend we were watching miniature alligators floating in the brine. We were the mighty hunters, using the tongs to conquer the not so mighty, yet salty, beasts.
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