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The Commute

As we approached,

they became more than just shapes

shifting and gliding on a wet grey street,

I stayed in the outside seat,

waiting for people to pass me by;

tall ones slithering into their places,

pin straight strands tracing the faces and figures

of suburban youth.

I was forced to the window

when an hourglass approached,

my unwashed rags swathed in perfume.

I tried to tell myself that we’re all just shapes,

colors and contours moving like fleshy sieves across the transom of the world,

and that beauty was perhaps applicable to something else-

Maybe a lucid cameo in the glass, beneath the incandescent shower

of a street lamp,

with a draped pearl necklace of strung bridge lights.

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  1. I used to commute to and from work everyday, with my eyes closed. Now I wished that I had kept them open!!!

    I felt as though I were reading a page from a brilliant novel. I found myself being pulled into your vision... I can picture the pearls now... and I'm left wanting to know more.... well crafted.

    Temari

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