haibun || Sheila E. Murphy

As Happens

Often free of winter, she enclosed her breakneck speed toward a release of heart. The tropics interceded in the way a wash of salt sea crashed toward the body as it toe tapped at the shore. A line of code might have spawned withholding. Never mind the unintended innocence. A mirrored capstone notified bewildered eyesight. Upstart feelings colocated with imparted breath. No wonder everyone was drawn to love the few cues. The gilded requisite apparel named each target after a concentric set of adages. As though embroidered from the start. As image stored its a cappella circumstance in memory. A chill around the motion scheduled on her chart.

Deciduous emotion, caritas caught from afar, brought close