This is my final posting for NaPoWriMo. It’s a vignette, written in response to the prompt words at 3WW: highway, empty and ignored.
She screamed, Stop the car!
It pitched to a halt
on the verge of an empty road.
She slammed the door behind her.
and strode slowly, deliberately
into the middle of the highway.
The friends who left her there
agreed to synchronize their stories.
She could no longer be ignored.
I will now be taking a break to spend time with family near Geneva. Thank you to everyone who has either read or commented on my poems during April.
April 30, 2008 at 8:21 pm
well i assure you the pleasure has been all mine… and i thank you as well for bearing with me thru the course of the month as well…
April 30, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I love the image of her walking out into the middle of the highway – scary and stark, and the friends who agree to synchronize their stories.
Thanks for all your great comments on my blog, and for reading my poems during this month, and the others. Enjoy your time in Geneva. Sounds like heaven.
April 30, 2008 at 9:51 pm
I love the images in this piece! Enjoy your time away – it’s been a pleasure for sure to read your work, as always, and I’ll look forward to more!
April 30, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I can see her there in the middle of the highway! Scary! Great image-making!
April 30, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Minimal information with stark images. It works. We can certainly see what’s happening here.
Excellent!
May 1, 2008 at 12:40 am
A whole story told in so few words!
It sure feels good to be back!
May 1, 2008 at 12:55 am
I just want to know why the stories had to be syncrhonized? What was going on to require that?
Enjoy your time off!
May 1, 2008 at 9:13 am
Enjoy your break!
May 1, 2008 at 2:48 pm
the end seem to have no end, I imagine her friends probably realized she needed help
anyway, enjoy your break
May 2, 2008 at 6:41 pm
There were times I felt like that! Nice one. Enjoy your hiatus.
May 2, 2008 at 11:23 pm
visuals are excellent.. did she no longer wanna be a part of something… the middle of the highway… that is always a scary place to be..
May 5, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Have a lovely lovely time!