useless art

May 20, 2004

Metro North Bottle

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I allowed the bottle
to roll off the ledge
onto the train car floor,
because it wasn’t mine.

Yet it clung to my foot,
gently nuzzling my ankle.
I lifted my foot
and let it go. The bottle
walked down the aisle,
like a miniature drum roll,
the sound fading faster,
the roll quickening

and then a clear break,
a small twinkle of glass
and quiet.

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