What happened to the girl who disappeared She became a Fibonacci flower, the lowest on the totem, the strongest within coffee, satirical propaganda blared out before the cease fire; the burden of soot on a chimney, slang for a continent; another word for a bird’s capped head; a cool remnant of a white dwarf star; a void, a common snake, a vent in the sea floor where hot water shoots out, a kind of carbon to make tires and pigment, ivory, slate, a river, a canyon, a sea.
another day, another girl poem, another american sonnet
whew…so many powerful images…”burden of soot on the chimney” and “slang for a continent” both got me, made me feel the largeness of something that has happened (conflagration, defeat)