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In a moment, that young girl riding her bike,
will rise
hundreds of feet above
her neighbors’ houses,
water gushing, shooting, erupting asphalt,
generations of embryonic shelter, her tires’
coerced rotations atop
natural seawall edified
by beach nourishment
decades ago, and her once-ribboned
braid will tangle into patches of golden
brown,
Sargassum seaweed displaced
too, Caribbean beaches no longer
perfumed by its sulfur, shrouded
in its grape-looking fronds. Still
sound, an occasional yelp, any
onlooker or those sharing
the girl’s orbit cascading
limestone nuggets, a sedan’s door,
dredged avocadoes, very little
sand, this Tuesday’s endless
limits
extravaganza
invitation--
will sparkle from flaked gold, porcelain
bits, glycerol’s attempt to slow each sunny
day flood’s descent.
Snow Globe
Amy Lerman is residential English Faculty at Mesa Community College. Her manuscript, Orbital Debris, won the 2022 Jonathan Holden Poetry Chapbook Contest, she is a Pushcart nominee, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Atticus Review, Muleskinner Journal, Smartish Pace, Radar Poetry, Slippery Elm, Rattle, and other publications.
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