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On the Roof

Heather Dorn

The shingles steamed
prickling my palms
branding me
with evidence
of where I had been.

I could see lucky leaves
who lived untouched
in the tops of trees
as the sky dimmed
into watercolor blurs of blue
clouds crowded
my head reeling
as birds sped by squawking.

And I could see everything and nothing
could reach me.

But as the sun suddenly sank
through the dark Earth
five o’ clock cars came crawling
home I startled my way down
the berry bricks.

As I dashed through the back door
my mom pushed through the front
we met in the kitchen.

“Where have you been?”
she asked suspiciously.
I watched the vein on her pale forehead
the one that would darken to purple
shoved my roof-wrinkled hands
in my jean pockets and said
“Nowhere.”

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