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Aching Backwards in a Deep Blue Sea
Oh, I believe in yesterday. – The Beatles
The backstroke be
-comes her, be
-lies the waiting sharks
and tentacled stings
of truth. She’s proof
that forever has its
spill,
and sway.
glancing over her shoulder at the empty castle
,
……………………………..she slays her dragons
…………………………………………….backwards, cuts
………her hair.
.
The Inevitable Efficiency of Hindsight
Give her a shattered rearview
mirror any day, a way
to forget.
Hello, her name is regret –
here to stay,
no forwarding
address.
.
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Three great images, perfectly succinct and captured. Great writing DeJackson!
Love that middle one. So true; we work it all out by changing our hair. Also, I love the subtle mentioning of cutting (as in skin), only, doing it backwards (in other words, uncutting ourselves OR letting ourselves heal).
I love that the tiny hanging comma, suspended in air all alone like that, looks like a short curl of hair.
Ha! I had not noticed that. LOVE it! 🙂
I love all of these. The backstroke – ouch. And the cutting of the hair – yes!
The third one had me in the mind of the movie “The Millers” where the guy had the tattoo with “no ragrets” 🙂