Accident?
In a compact field, green as Ireland,
a small plane stuttered and crashed.
Like expected mail that never arrives,
two anticipated people perished
in crackling, unpredictable flames.
A dog, the only survivor,
yelped, barked, limped away,
its continued life a message
no rescue team could decode.
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Austin Alexis is the author of
Privacy Issues (Broadside Lotus Press, Madgett Poetry Award, 2014) and two previously published chapbooks from Poets Wear Prada. Recent flash fiction, poetry, reviews, and plays have appeared in
Home Planet News Online,
Unstamatic,
The Avocet,
Point of View,
and
Long Island Sounds (an anthology). He has work forthcoming in
Maintenant: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing. He served recently as a panelist for the Bronx Council on the Arts. He lives in Manhattan.
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