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Mural of a Girl

June Poems

By Jacob EllisonPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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The giant’s bricked-over heart

and her bricked-over hands

hold flowers falling pastel colors.

Her gaze follows the petals.

I pass unnoticed beside her elbow

as a man wearing black

—hair slick, aviators hanging

single-limbed from his shirt collar—

pivots, sharply, urgently,

presses his notebook against her

passionately and draws a pen

from his breast pocket. His ruled page

is a black-ink cursive web.

Fiercely, he scrawls addenda.

At the top of the page, a salutation

hung in earnest loops and curls:

“To My One True Love”

The giant sighs in gusts

heaved from the East River.

She cracks, in fingers of sunburnt mortar,

mortal, as time steals away paint,

and the prick of the pen

stings with the directionality of love.

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