Recollecting Unusual Positions

Recollecting Unusual Positions

 

Simultaneously

looking down at her back

through the hull

of a glass bottomed boat

and up at the soles

of her feet and her skirts

from where he lay

in the gutter of some god

  forsaken city or other ..

Anyone watching

would have thought it was

magic, or witchcraft

or something entirely not

  of this earth ..

And they would have been

right of course,

since he was in the process

of dying alone

in that gutter, with just a few

fading photographs

 

and a memory or two of her ..

 

 

 

Reviews

[John Sullivan]

I can't help but think of Oscar Wilde: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars...”

Memories... threw out the photographs, myself, though I held onto them longer than I's care to admit...

Those cities are all the same, and I know that gutter... anyways, cheers

[Neville]

Thanks John .. You just made the blood rush to my head sir .. Neville

[Poetic Beauty]

This makes me think of a soldier who was on some covert mission. A photograph and a couple memories of her. That is what prompted me to think this way but my mind often works differently than others. The dying alone is sad and heartbreaking.

My guess is this is about some poor desolate homeless person but for some reason the image above stuck and pulled at my heartstrings.

Unfortunately this happens more than we would like to think it does.

[Neville]

thank you for sharing those gut feelings PB .. sometimes, one just has to run with them and hope for the best .. and on this occasion, you were write on both counts ma'am .. write on PB .. N :)

[Poetic Beauty]

It is unfortunate when terrible this happen!!

[Neville]

I concur .. 😊👍

[Thomas W Case]

Powerful work and vivid imagery.

[Neville]

I was playing LN Cohens LP when it hit me and I just grabbed the nearest pen .. Cheers T .. N

[Thomas W Case]

I love Cohen.

[Neville]

He wrote to me twice .. the last time in 2012 just after my father passed .. I love him too .. N

[Thomas W Case]

Very cool.

[Farjana Shah Chaity]

Beautiful writing, i can imagine your details, so lovely. i would love to read more of your writing, keep it up with your good work. Have a great week, Neville.

[Neville]

how kind .. thank you .. I shall try .. Neville

[carl]

ephemeral euphoria in the last minutes must be a blessing in disguise, enjoyed the image here, sad but highly emotional rending - thanks for the post -carl

[Neville]

thank you kind sir for the visit & for your thoughts on the matter .. Neville

[Stella Armour]

the mind recalls strange images when we die , or so it seems ...
i have known people reaching out and seeing people that i was sure were not in the room ...
who knows for certain ?
Dying alone is a terrible concept and yet it is all too familiar these days in the streets of our cities ..

[Neville]

Sadly and very much so .. You are absolutely write .. Neville