No More Elegy

 

 
                Weathering a three-day
                migraine in a house of
 
                four cats…
          or is it
an emotional aneurysm—something in the head
 
                burst, bleeding out
                in fatally minor ways.
 
               Back from a walk,
                       Beer Depot,
                             The Fishhouse,
 
sousers on the porch of Patrick’s Pub
               watch me pass.
 
              Flyer stapled to a
              telephone pole
 
that its whole vertical life has been
              begging for on-head collision.
                             A Missing Person poster.
 
                     HAVE YOU SEEN ANDREA K.?
        Age: 39
                         Ht.: 5’7”
                                        Wt.: 180 lbs.
 Hair: Brown w/ Blonde Highlights
                 Eyes:
                            Hazel.
                                         No tattoos.
                   Missing since June 24^th, 2017
                                 Last seen…
 
                                            Last seen 

now, me standing before her, headlights
                blazing Andrea's face to gloss
                                           (poster
                                                         laminated).
              In six months, spring.
                             Six after,
                                              winter.