Simmering Shimmer

Simmering Shimmer

There on the way to the park

No more than a yard

Something shimmering

lies on the pavement

a “Status” statement
stained with the spill of something 

strawberry ice-cream

Or so 
she thinks 
as she bends and lifts and reads

a surrendered-to-the-Universe

spewing of spurned love

come to rest here at the curb

Leaving only the 
“How could you?!!!!!???”

held like fighter jets too impossibly huge for her hand 
hanging onto a corner -  

Thunder rumbles suddenly in the hot summer sky

Jolted she turns with quick steps back home

Dropping the sticky question in the trash