Gravity
© 2015 Sonny Bohanan
Your sister’s face,
bloated, blackened, three days gone
when a firefighter axes the door.
Knowing it’s coming
does not prepare you for the power pain has
to destroy all it loves,
all it despises, you.
Her notebook opens
to the last page: Let gravity
do the work, tighten the rope.
Gravity.
Knowing it’s coming
makes it hard to move.
Gravity grows more ghastly
by the day, takes us all to ground.
That’s the world.
Sonny Bohanan is a writer and editor in Fort Worth, Texas. You can follow him on Twitter and read more of his work on Medium. You can also read his investigative and long-form journalism here. He was a newspaper journalist for 20 years and is now writing fiction and nonfiction while pursuing a master of arts degree in creative writing. Thanks for taking the time to read and comment!
