Sunday, October 18, 2020

Shading the lens (Day 1368)


Arkansas! she said. Pity. He seemed so nice.

And with that, she turned her attention elsewhere, 

toward people who were not leaving for Arkansas. 

Nearby, a woman shot into the sun, shading the lens 

with her hand. Try as she might, she was unable to 

capture the day’s pervasive sense of intimacy suffused 

with estrangement. High clouds spread thin fingers 

across the sky, while a yellowjacket sipped, halfheartedly,

an abandoned glass of rose. It was not to his taste. 


(c) 2020 by Hannah Six

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