WHISTLING SHADE

Spring - Summer 2015

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Plastic Bag Ballet

by Melody Sage

Infinity in a plastic bag

jellyfish of the streets,

drifting in a wet

transparent ballet

pirouette

slide

airborne plié

ugly, pretty,

deathless, pale

with no odor

no decay.

Ubiquitous

corpse bubble,

ocean trash,

Triassic shroud,

not as innocent as a cloud,

tumbling swollen

belled,

as if laid

onto your head

and held.