Sunday, March 27, 2011

Pop

The first time she heard his voice
a bubble of champagne
caught in her throat like news of death

blooming darkly through the wire it fell
visceral as a bat’s night wings
sudden against sky

every string appeared to play
bass collapsed in fragments
of pitch and timbre

she curled into its character
no longer aware of street noise
in temporary search of destination.

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