Shopping Cart
By Susan L. Pollet
PROMPT — The way I see it ...
All of her possessions were in the shopping cart,
hastily placed at random inside it, as she made
her home on the sidewalk with a white blanket
draped over her shoulders, matching her hair
The cart was decorated with white angels
hanging off of it, in keeping with her, perhaps,
inadvertent theme of a kind of purity,
innocence, and aging
Each day she sat in the same spot, rarely
making eye contact with anyone, and guarding
what little she had left, with her immutable presence
Some people dropped off food and drink by her feet,
their own form of washing hers with respect
One day she disappeared from her home on the
concrete and nobody knew what had happened to her
Some urban neighbors set up a small shrine on that spot
in her honor, with white flowers, white candles and
white angels, hoping for her return, or a sign
Susan L. Pollet is a published author of books in multiple genres and a fine artist who is a member of the Arts Student’s League in New York City. Susan’s poetry and art have been published in multiple literary publications and in on-line shows. She writes from New York, NY.
