DisRemember Me~

~Pandora Reconstructed~

I think I'll do it off a bridge

said the ungirl with the rose between her teeth

or maybe off a tall

tall spire

or at the edge of a fountain

in the middle of a summer day

when all the suits are ambling

and the students are lazing

and the homeless are congregating

to see the spectacles of urban somnambulation

 

The woman shook her head wound through with voluptuous thoughts

as she poured more coffee

and the waitress bent low to refill the sugar bowl

as the ungirl played her tongue across ruby blossoms;

and what do you propose that will accomplish

asked the woman

do you think it will give them pause

do you think they will even notice

 

The ungirl smiled

she said

it's really not the act itself

I have no delusions about how broken bones turn to ash

and blood seeps into chalk outlines

quickly forgotten

and the news moves on to more sensational behavior

it's not about that at all

 

The woman blinked the future from the corners of her eyes

and whispered

ahhhh

I see

it is not the sacrifice

but whether the sacrifice will be permitted

 

The girl inclined her dove brow into the moment

she smiled

she said

maybe this diner will do

it kind of worked for HunnyBunny after all

and she slipped a box from between her second and third rib

and placed it on the table

 

The woman ran her fingers across the golden letters

and said

Pandora

what are you really up to

 

Pandora winked

she opened the box

her spine exploded into feathered memories

sweeping

spreading

colliding with windows

until glass was shattered

raining everywhere

 

The waitress ducked beneath a booth

the patrons ran for the exit

the woman sighed

the ungirl parted her lips

and began to breathe in

deep

and deeper

until every sin

every dark corner of human memory

was refolded into her box

 

Fairy tales are for children

the woman said

took the ungirl in her palm

and disremembered her complex compositions

dismembered her allusions

her illusions

and poured her like water

back into the world

until the glass was whole

and the waitress kept on waitressing

and the patrons swallowed greasy fare

while a man panhandled for his dinner outside

 

I think I'll do it off a bridge

next time

said the ungirl

and the woman smiled

and said

give me the box

and go and live your life

fall in love

have a baby

grow old

 

The ungirl sipped her Cola

and the woman drank her coffee

and the people kept on somnambulating

while the ungirl decided

next time

she would keep her dreams

to herself

a half past midnight

into a dawn

 

 

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Reviews

[Jibey]

Interesting take on a suicide bomber, I decided! Or the image of one being used to describe the ungirl's desire to do something spectacular, to open up the mysterious Pandora's box next to her heart... I was taken by the woman with her voluptuous thoughts, who happened to be there and brought some down-to-earth common sense to the ungirl -- perhaps turning her into a girl after all... helping her to move away from those shattered memories of the night...

As always, your writing is intriguing and surreal in many ways, highly imaginative and fluent in its imagery and diction... a 'mindspring' indeed, as Robin puts it... I'm conscious that I take a wild stab at understanding it and must often be wide of the mark... but whatever the story is, the poem flows so well and arrests us with its unfolding narrative...

[Brad]

ah, that pandora...she lives and breathes in your work, making her way into everyone's imaginations...i love this tale, s, closed my eyes and watched her unfold before my "eyes"....




by the way, dear, you said "box"... *pinch*

[Robin]

you are a mindspring that flows into crystal purity

[Sweet_pale_cacophony]

I like the word 'somnambulating'..also the stanza
Pandora winked

she opened the box

her spine exploded into feathered memories

sweeping

spreading

colliding with windows

until glass was shattered

raining everywhere
You paint a picture with your words..:) for us..thank you.