Tuesday, August 13, 2024

tin can communication May 2012

 


May 2012

 

With the sound of her scream 

still reverberating in my head

 even two weeks after the fact,

 I tap out the message

 via the company email, 

not the stuff dreams were made of 

during those long lonely nights

 in my basement 

so, so apparently long ago, 

rather the formal chilly message 

of one professional to another, 

as distant as she seemed 

over the weeks prior to the bar, 

remote even though I am

 sending it from by cubical 

beneath the stairs 

while she sits in the bullpen

 within shouting distance from me,

 two tin can attached by string 

might serve as well,

 though I envision her face, 

mouth and eyes as I transmit,

 innocent chatter I desperately need,

 if only to keep the channel 

of communication open, 

a thin thread that might break 

with the wrong word said, 

her face still floating in front of me,

 clinging to the roof.

 



email to Al Sullivan

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