road to race,
toes push off-
Family, friends
cheer on
as clouds hang
in city...Cold
Spring Day
exploding
heart of city
Back Bay breaks
THE MARATHON
at finish line
two Blasts
Shock
limbs fly
off, running
chaos, racing
to aid, scrambling
lost walking
away
Only backpacks,
hundreds left
on sidewalks
now empty.
(April 15, 2013)
"3 killed, 130 hurt at finish line; area locked down"
Author Bio:
Denise Mostacci Sklar began her life in the arts as dancer and has recently had the good fortune to discover writing as another way to move through life. She particularity enjoys the stillness...waiting for words to make an entrance. Some of the journals her work can be found include: Dark Lady Poetry, Wilderness House Literary Review, MFT- The Valley Review, BRICKrhetoric, Haunted Waters Press, Emerge Literary Journal, and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.