Katie
She is the Chalk Outline at the Murder Scene,
the shadow which precedes you and me.
She's the sea's retreat before the Tsunami,
the Silence before the Crash,
the Still before Mayhem,
the earthquake weather
before the shaking begins;
the Eye of the Hurricane.
She lives in moments
where Time is Hushed;
at the brink;
the interstices;
the river's rush,
the blue part of the flame;
the Single Hand
holding the Universe back.
And she gets away with it.
She is the one pulling
the curtain
back
at Oz,
She is the one
backing up
the one-way zone,
who seems to live
without money
because people
simply give her want she wants.
She goes to funerals of people
she doesn't know
and cries reading obituaries.
She is the uninvited wedding guest
that no one knows,
goes to hotels, uses the sauna
and the swimming pool
and never registers
or pays;
sits down
on the curb on city streets
to rest her feet;
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poem by Lonnie Hicks
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