We Have Seen Her Dismantling-Nancy Ames
We Have Seen Her Dismantling
By Nancy Ames
We have seen her dismantling, with
quick, precise fingers, piece by piece,
the ugly metallic structures that are
lurking here, you know, on every single
side-street, thrusting their obscene,
crooked challange up at the blue and
domed expanse of bright prairie sky.
I get the impression that the crooked
metal things are secretly hoping to
attract some balloons, at least, with
their ugly art, but really they only prohibit
the balloons from landing on the real
estate at all.
She is almost certain now that the metal
must be growing after midnight because
it is so very black, oddly unreflective under
the inflated moon… but she has to sleep
some time, doesn’t she?
Copyright C. 2008 Nancy Ames
March 1st, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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