Butterfly Effect— Just Before Your Heart Stopped You Dizzied

by Flower Conroy
issue 60
To pontificate that this swirling
sand— It gets in your throat,
under your clothes,
in your bed
muttered a street
sweeper missing
part of his mouth,
& eyes, then the top
of his head
as he disappeared
into a dervish
of cloud—hatched
a tsunami, or stuccoed the walls of the Wings Mansion,
or could have precipitated
on our shore, years away,
the caterpillar that perchanced
into my hair: when I called your name—
behind a debris curtain, the sun reddened
& the leaves were reduced to lace,
(a blood clot
abnormal
as a red pearl,
dislodged unbe-
knownst to us,
only later to be diagnosed as having flew-
apart)— you answered
with your hand upon your chest,
as if cupping
the ripple in your mis-
fluttering heart
you could undo
a sequence writ in wind.
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