Amidst the spongy grass and gray pebbles dotted with flecks of quartz<\/p>\n
Along paved trails that sluice through the leaf-frosted earth<\/p>\n
Beside the brick structures segmented by imposing windows<\/p>\n
Stands the last band geek on earth.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
She stretches a bruised arm up into the sky<\/p>\n
Bats at the wisps of cotton-like fog<\/p>\n
Her hand fades into the silver and becomes the clouds<\/p>\n
But her feet never leave the ground.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Tucked away behind the band hall and the slabs of pavement erupting from the dirt<\/p>\n
Strewn across the coarse, fractured pavement and triangles of glass<\/p>\n
Her wrecked<\/p>\n
Resolve skitters along the slate aggregate and collides with dislodged rock.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
And who is she,<\/p>\n
Stretched betwixt the heavens and purgatory, lost in her own dust and her swirls of mist,<\/p>\n
The engraving of her failure pressed into her flesh with nature’s stylus,<\/p>\n
To dissolve in the muffled fall dawn and let her hair assail the wind?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Who is she,<\/p>\n
Alone on the cement steps of the band hall with her uniform of sweatpants,<\/p>\n
A phantom that is and yet never was<\/p>\n
Destined for nebulae and neutron stars?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Who was she to believe<\/p>\n
That when the band ascended into the constellations for their weekend away from Earth,<\/p>\n
She’d journey with them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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