A Fall Swept Day

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e days of reaching for meaning Lost in the haze of summers past The once promising girl lays down In the fall chilled sand Where she never belonged And shouldn’t have come With rocks grazing her cheek She’s no longer able to appreciate The beauty of a sunset Over sparkling green waters For now she knows They sold her future away Before she even had the chance To try</p><p id="e72f"><i>Natalie Frank (Taye Carrol) has had work featured in Haunted Waters Press, Weirdbook Magazine, Siren’s Call Publications, Lycan Valley Press and Zero Fiction among others. Her poetry has been featured in several anthologies.</i></p><figure id="cffe"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*WDHIWtnGiVMjEPlD2lgXPA.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><div id="f169" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/echos-last-stand-1717b9d5835"> <div> <div> <h2>Echo’s Last Stand</h2> <div><h3>An anteroom here Paces with renowned patience Where a Gatekeeper answers time In a foyer kept waiting And without…</h3></div>

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A Fall Swept Day

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When flesh became costume I don’t know I become aware of a little more as time passes Undifferentiated Until halogened fear causes night to become day And day to become something surreal It is the light of prison yards When those incarcerated try to escape Alarms blaring silently Light crippled eyes see Only what they are told to Perhaps the best place to be Is in the way At least then you exist Though I have spent lifetimes Trying to avoid exactly this To always remain under the radar And not be seen as I was taught Only inside my own mind appreciated Before costume becomes husk Well on its way now Body pretends to bend towards the realistic Then sends me over til I lose my balance In the surprising warmth Of blood pounding in my ears Claws scrape deep furrowing hardwood In my tilt-o-whirl world And dull needles prickle sleeping limbs Practicality no more than memory The days of reaching for meaning Lost in the haze of summers past The once promising girl lays down In the fall chilled sand Where she never belonged And shouldn’t have come With rocks grazing her cheek She’s no longer able to appreciate The beauty of a sunset Over sparkling green waters For now she knows They sold her future away Before she even had the chance To try

Natalie Frank (Taye Carrol) has had work featured in Haunted Waters Press, Weirdbook Magazine, Siren’s Call Publications, Lycan Valley Press and Zero Fiction among others. Her poetry has been featured in several anthologies.

You can find links to my other work on Medium and follow me here. Thanks for reading.