dream piece

melian and i are in a townhouse development, walking past the home where Lorraine lives...i say that's her house, and then she walks out of it down the sidewalk! i say look! there she is!...then i walk right up to her and say hello...she just looks at me, then mutters a hello, she seems to shy away from direct eye contact as for a few moments it seems there is something wrong with her face, i catch a shifting glimpse of three eyes where there should be one, and then that is gone...she is dressed in sweat pants and a baggy shirt...later she comes out of the house in her work clothes; a fast-food uniform of some sort

rain soaked leaf
releases
its tannins
onto concrete/as
atom bomb victims
leave
powder shadow photographs
of death