Entropic Girl On The Street

Andrew Berry 2005 (Pennsylvania)



She is wearing a matt-gray sweatshirt
and walking to the pace of a heartbeat.
White strings in her ears,
she cries toward an unknown ellipsis.

Sadness suddenly explicit.
Meaning, implication, as inherent,
trapped into the soles of her feet–
always lifting, always internal..

I do not comfort her,
but watch, take note–
subtle, perhaps its own intervention.
Background noise: the rumble of air sifting.

This then: a people beyond any
immediate togetherness.
11:44PM, Thursday. It begins to rain. Clouds overhead
and the printing of a new wetness:
the push of nonbeing.
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Written on September 12, 2022

Submitted by aberry1695 on October 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABB XXAX XXXC XDXDC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 579
Words 107
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 5

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