girl, walking home, holds impromptu funeral
Kimberly Go

i move my head from side to side to make the windows on a skyscraper blink.

left.
right.
left.(blink blink blink)like that.
right.
left.

tattered plastic shopping bags shine orange or purple or blue, depending on which
light from the skyscraper filters through the body.

i pick one off the ground and stretch it out in front of my face.

left
right.
left.(blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink)
right.(blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink)
left.(blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink)
right.
left.

i see orange then purple then blue, then a hole appears in the body. i take the bag
home and bury it under dandelion stalks and snow.