April is National Poetry Month! Here is another Matthew Van Der Boot inspired poem.
You Give Love a Bad Name (not that one by Bon Jovi)
“And I want you to know,” she says,
two red fingernails pointed at your chest,
“That it’s nothing personal.”
“Wait—” is the last thing you say,
before the flash and pop,
the sudden tilt of earth beneath your feet,
the blue sky filling your vision from edge to edge,
the slow swaying branches of a cottonwood tree,
and the yellow brown leaf
fluttering free
and falling,
falling,
falling.