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In a moment, that young girl riding her bike,
 
                                                       will rise
                                                       hundreds of feet above
                                                       her neighbors’ houses,

water gushing, shooting, erupting asphalt,
generations of embryonic shelter, her tires’

                                                    coerced rotations atop
                                                    natural seawall edified
                                                    by beach nourishment

decades ago, and her once-ribboned
braid will tangle into patches of golden

                                                   brown,
                                                   Sargassum seaweed displaced
                                                   too, Caribbean beaches no longer

perfumed by its sulfur, shrouded
in its grape-looking fronds. Still
sound, an occasional yelp, any

                                                 onlooker or those sharing
                                                 the girl’s orbit cascading
                                                 limestone nuggets, a sedan’s door,
                                                 dredged avocadoes, very little
                                                 sand, this Tuesday’s endless
                                                 limits
                                                 extravaganza
                                                 invitation--

will sparkle from flaked gold, porcelain
bits, glycerol’s attempt to slow each sunny
day flood’s descent.

Snow Globe

Amy Lerman is residential English Faculty at Mesa Community College. Her manuscript, Orbital Debris, won the 2022 Jonathan Holden Poetry Chapbook Contest, she is a Pushcart nominee, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Atticus Review, Muleskinner Journal, Smartish Pace, Radar Poetry, Slippery Elm, Rattle, and other publications.

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