BY JENNIFER CHOI
Copyright is held by the author.
the man with the pipe on the 15th
meets his long-dead lover
in the midnight window display.
the man, with a friendly ventriloquism,
asks about their well-being.
the lover, with a pristine face,
asks personal questions. clear laughter,
& a night spent contemplating their relationship.
the man knew the origin of the mannequin,
made by applying plaster to a dead body.
the disassembled moon fell in pieces onto the street.
the lover’s peeled skin revealed
pale apricot hues. today is the 15th,
a night when the dead observe the living.
the man silently changes pronouns,
bending the pipe into a crescent.
the lover’s mouth corners curl up,
while the living, from afar, hear gunshots.
as the iron gate falls outside the window,
people walk toward the date line.
the man imagines the hidden mannequin’s expression.
a thin, long metallic sound dragged along the street.
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Jennifer Choi is a passionate high school student. Her work has previously been published or is forthcoming in Incandescent Review, Altered Reality Magazine, Academy of Heart and Mind, and Culterate Magazine among others.
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