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Capture and Release

Ted Jackins

“The way the smoke curls
around your sun kissed eyelids
reminds me of the songs
that only the children of
a certain place can recall...”

She sings these to herself
from the back seat
of the wagon carrying
her off to meet a newly
unsealed fate
as a means of some
sort of recognition,
an acceptance of what
may only be obvious
to the most cautious
of observers,
the facts are all there,
laid out and undressed
before her.
She can’t believe
they loosened the shackles
so she could seek solace
in cigarettes,
she wasn’t even a
smoker until five minutes
earlier when she discovered
the unopened pack in
her borrowed jacket
and whispered of the need
for a match.
The phrase
“any last requests”
only proceeded this moment
in an implied manner,
it had clung to the air
of every passing second
even before they had
tracked her down,
so desperate and lost
on that winter sidewalk
all dolled up in dirty
snowfall,
broken benches and
bus stops for a route
no one ever takes anymore
these days.
There’s nowhere left
to go anyway,
except for away.
Away from here...
Away from now...

...and it is with that
thought that the familiar
image of the plain and
imposing white of the
hospital appeared
before her,
just up that hill...
just out of reach...
like so many lost
and unwanted things.

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