Southeastern Virginia,
Post-Hurricane
Beaches
with crooked spines
curl into a land
of
heat and swindles.
In this space, a man prowls the shore
of ages past,
his
shoulders sloping
ever so
slightly forwards.
Feet soft with age
split
open the bell
of a
beached jellyfish.
Like the smokestacks
that
line the horizon,
they
unleash but a soundless puff
of black-
bottled
air.
Emily Bartholet
Emily Bartholet is a highly caffeinated student at Dickinson College, where she wishes she could major in everything. When she's not studying, she can usually be found writing under a tree, or, when it rains, curled up in a beloved coffee shop. Her poetry has appeared online and in print, most notably in Third Point Press, Half Mystic, Inklette, and Rat's Ass Review's Love and Ensuing Madness collection.
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