Thursday, November 19, 2015

shock before injury

I drew a circle around my head, bouncing the broken piece of chalk over the rough irregularities in the asphalt. It grew smaller with every loop, harder to hold onto, fracturing in the divots and cracks, artifacts from mistakes long forgotten or never noticed. The chalk spat its last neon breath out on the street, but I kept my frantic rhythm, blending fingernails into blacktop like mixing watercolors, blurring my bright halo with numb, rusted red. 

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