"But I Just Saw Her Yesterday!"

a poem by Sarah Carro

Creative Writing Weekly is a gathering of writers of all levels, lead by Michael Rash, that create pieces every week based on prompts. The prompts for this piece were:

• below the surface

• entirely too many

• falling and flying

• "but I just saw her yesterday."

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I just saw her,

hair pulled back,

sweatshirt with a tiny rip on the right shoulder

where she’d gotten it caught on something walking too fast.

She was always rushing,

always rushing somewhere else.

I guess she finally found the door

she was looking for.

A door that only opens one way,

for one at a time.

Her earrings swung, caught the light as she turned from me,

the beads uttering just

the slightest sound.

Entirely too many

cannot feel

anything

but the dead weight of time

below the surface,

pulling down like another gravity,

hooks in the skin

connected to anvils underground,

dredging the lakes

of our histories,

searching for meaning

but only collecting

boots

and bloat.

Falling and flying

are the same thing:

the weightlessness of letting go,

the path showing itself

instead of being laid out

like a train track pried out of nothing.

Falling and flying are

below the surface activities.

The waves of air hold you up.