An undulation a ripple on the surface
because her callouses have faded
skin touches newborn fingers
seas of outraged faces drift open at her glance
her eyelash on a stone
a breathless one
a tapered wafer
a brief recollection.
Her veneers slant on the balance
from scrawled ideograms
to hasty apparitions
effervescent still and silent.
This is what she found when she reached out
to test the tension on the surface
the depth of resolution
contained her banistered headstone.
No name chiseled no portrait etched.
Vines have wrapped it ’round and shriveled.
No gathered guests no dust no leafy spring
when who has returned will fail
to resemble who has departed.
Jesse Minkert lives in Seattle. In 2008, Wood Works Press published a letterpress collection of his microstories, Shortness of Breath & Other Symptoms. His work has appeared in about fifty journals including the Georgetown Review, the Chaffin Journal, the Minetta Review, Confrontation, Mount Hope, Floating Bridge Review, Poetry Northwest, Common Knowledge, and Harpur Palate.
–Background & Foreground Photography by Jon Damaschke
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