Issue # 9 April 2011
Lois Elaine Heckman
Evanescence

Thoughts
twist
and writhe
to give birth
to hidden phrases
enclosed in elusive ideas
which then vanish from the mind, like the skywriter twirls
in his contortions to form cloud words that magically
appear on a blue slate chalkboard,
only to dissolve
into wisps:
whispers
to
smoke.