Panic Attack on a Monday Morning

Photo by Tim Meyer on Unsplash

On pale purple mornings_____I walked across the empty lot
_____and the man_____in the safety vest_____picking up trash scraps
only saw a girl_____going to work_____at the grocery store
_____but her heart_____the hunted rabbit_____ran_____and she tried
not to see the vastness_____of it all_____the open sky_____the asphalt river
_____and she tried_____not to be dizzy_____and fall sideways_____into everything_____but there was…