10 hours ago
Embalming air
Sun ghosts grey through
blue-hazed diesel fumes.
She apologises through a group;
alien here.
Apple-sweet aromas of plastic-wrapped
decay spill from shadowed lanes—
bile rises, swallowed hard.
Salt-clammy sweat stings
on blister-flushed AC-prickled skin.
She squeezes between jammed SUVs
horns erupting in frustration
followed by the eyes of a child from the sunroof beside.
Deep-growled acceleration scythes
through grime-textured air.
Brakes
squeal.
She turns to witness
the world dying
in irrevocable motion.
Sun ghosts grey through
blue-hazed diesel fumes.
She apologises through a group;
alien here.
Apple-sweet aromas of plastic-wrapped
decay spill from shadowed lanes—
bile rises, swallowed hard.
Salt-clammy sweat stings
on blister-flushed AC-prickled skin.
She squeezes between jammed SUVs
horns erupting in frustration
followed by the eyes of a child from the sunroof beside.
Deep-growled acceleration scythes
through grime-textured air.
Brakes
squeal.
She turns to witness
the world dying
in irrevocable motion.