Text by K. Cecchini & Photo by Vice (HBO)
Full metal jacket
Police tanks pummel dissent
War games on Main Street.
Tag: poem
Indelible
Indelible
as trauma lodged
in the cortex,
his memory
circles her
consciousness,
stringing knots
of regret,
poised
to storm the
translucent
veil of dreams
once she rocks
herself to sleep;
for outside the
watchful eyes of
life, he is hers.
-K. Cecchini
First published in the Montclair Times
Fade Past
Not much more than a rag doll
she folds east, her molted
braids sweep slowly
on top of the shoulders of an
oversized T. on the steps
to the avenue, she leans
and tucks in locking
onto me…expectantly.
I scurry and fade past
her thin eyes
with my head bowed,
to the early morning rush.
By Kimberly Cecchini
The Ride Home
While
street lamps
leer down,
lights and
shadows,
cascade
and
mingle,
push
and
linger
along
the dash,
over
my lap,
atop
his grip,
and on
his face,
a tear.
By Kimberly Cecchini
