Relief fills her lungs with the sudden rush of cold on flesh upon her train station exit.
8:05
She's got time and doesn't plan to waste it.
Platform heels bind size 9 feet into the image of 6's
A whrilwind of steps
Manipulate time & distance
She makes it
5 blocks in 7 minutes
Triumphant
tip toes through back door
As if avoiding paparazzi
The candle light her phone booth
For clark kent transition
5 minute stretch & meditation is needed
A brief conversation with ancestors is healing
She speaks until words are no more
She greets them in silence
Stone face and full of fire
The drums sound
Releasing fury for make believe self-destruction
She Submerge herself in sin
Slink out in bliss
Skin sunkissed by fernels through amber
light Oshuns return
the illusion is complete
As the goddess takes her leave.
C. Joi Sanchez
www.jsanschez.wordpress com
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