-Hannah

Cinghiale

Sudden and abrupt

Stop 

Everything

Slow and careful

Back up-

Retrace steps

Eyes locked 

Standing ground

Threatened

Two creatures

Interrupt each other's paths

Accidental encounter 

-Kim

Afternoon

or

Josef Beuys Recalling a Summertime Memory While Contemplating the Falling Snow

-Kim

A Seal in the 1950s

or

Before Climate Change

-Hannah

Fear

so jarring
so hollow
quartered the night into bits
splinters scattered, shattered

so engulfing
so unseen
ripped into an unknown state
vulnerable, trembling

so invasive
so brutish
menacingly demanded

WHAT IF/ WHAT IF/ WHAT IF

-Kim

week away from it

living blue sky beaches

while one pink plant died

-Hannah

I don't want
to turn my back on you
friend

I don't need to say
"what a mess this is"
"where do we begin"

time is so slippery
it moves so fast,
so unpredictably

I don't think
I'll ever understand
life: this great mystery

-Kim

-Hannah

Hannah

Alex, 8.2.15, Kim