Plan of Action

Issue 13

When it’s over
I will no longer think of
striding by the cartoon portraits
that banked the
sturdying saplings
 
I will no longer think
of the late afternoon at the Whitney
and a trickle of understanding:
it would have been better
if I had been dead
 
I will no longer have to but
shoulder the weather--
wind and concrete,
and how could one leave
such a vortex
 
I will no longer think of you
and what it meant
when you had mattered
 
the city remained a joke
for someone
no longer
laughing

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Bethany Ludwig-Eagan lives in Upstate New York with her husband and two cats. Despite graduating from SUNY Binghamton with a degree in philosophy, she currently works in financial services and is studying to become a Chartered Financial Consultant. In her free time, she enjoys writing poetry and short stories

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