accidents

i saw an accident one afternoon while riding the bus home from school and this observation was the result (note the teen similes!) i'd always had a very graphic image for it in my head which i wanted someone to draw for me, a la the characters in the beatles anthology, but i could never find someone to do it, so i finally made my own attempt. it's nothing like my orginal concept, but i like it well enough...
the second poem is about another accident, 16 years later, again in april! so, these are observations through my then teen, now adult (sort of), eyes.

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Thoughts after an accident 10 april 1981 How frail the human body is! Along comes a truck (man-made!) and we lie sprawled, hugging the earth with our broken bones, rudely splitting open like over-ripe tomatoes to spill our lives onto the barren and unyielding ground.

observation april 97 burnt ashes in the road, like a love once desired.... police remove the yellow lines, while the flares - burning pyres amidst the siren-wails - expire.

image & text © sass

time travel / midsummer madness / an ordinary woman / snake / infernal youth / air / ifs & but / heaven-sent / postcard from the ledge / cartwheels / thoughts after an accident / fall / drugstore poem / sweeping the deck / self, indulging / sterling sylvia / cultivated silence / phoenix - survivor poems / poem index