Car Wreck, New Year's Eve
for Persephone, the one who lived
Look at the low light through leafless oaks.
Read the trees to know the time of year.
Persephone's descent is complete.
Her mother mourns.
Distraught Demeter waits in the ER
the ambulance speeding toward her
skimming the wet highway,
among its cargo
the damaged daughter
who stood in the winter road
blinded by oncoming lights.
Stunned Persephone
in the cold sarcophagus
driven back to her mother
out of season
bearing a mournful message
from her dead sisters
bearing her wounded life.
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