Fragments

by Robert Vaughan

 

Can’t fathom what possesses

someone to bolt

so suddenly,

 

disappear

 

noteless, without warning

signs, surely troubled

but aren’t we all…

 

 

What urges someone

to leap off a

cliff, fly into a canyon

 

to be swallowed whole

in fragments

 

dispersed. Only

one freezing January

month after we’d met.