waiting

We ran
without thinking
No plan
Or reason
You said
Let’s go
I went
Straight through
No speaking
Nothing
Dead night
Waiting

i fell in

Outside
The glass broke
I went around
And back again
This morning
Went beyond the walk
Home
The wind stopped
I fell in

they left after breakfast

They left after breakfast – a day that wouldn’t start and wouldn’t end.

The concrete path gave way to wooden pailings as a lawnmower clipped the morning air and a brother and sister met for the second time.

Wandering the rocks they fell apart as one led and the other followed.

The northerly sea wind flattened the birds against the crumbling greywacke cliffs, feathers shaking in the shallow crests.

Empty beach, full of rocks- they watched.

Nets like spiderwebs dragged the buoys out on the current as across the channel another means of escape drifted further and further out of sight.

They climbed to the ledge, standing facing the present and the past and what came next.

Deep breath.

They melt and freeze in one quick instant, sun shines the way through and up and out.

A moment later, the clouds break- they take their exit.