Progress

By Morgan Hannah, Life & Style Editor


She wore a loose-fitting black dress

her hair pinned up in tight curls

and long legs bare.

She looked out across the divide

                                their eyes met

—his frantic

hers grey-green and glittering from the light of the moon.

She smiled suddenly

then looked over

as one of her slippers slithered off her foot and
                                                            tumbled

                                                      down

blending into the street below. 

And without a beat more

she pushed off

and spilled through the air

like an ungainly pigeon with clipped wings.