I did a haiku the other day about Ronette walking over the bridge. I wanted to develop it a bit as her character doesn’t get much attention despite the trauma she endures.
So, here’s what I came up with.
You can see the video version here
The Pulaski Girl
Battered and broken
Left to wander in darkness
Twine around your wrists
Deep impressions made
Lines cut of encircling pain
Angry purple scars
Beneath your torn clothes
A shivering frame walks on
Dried blood clings and pulls
You’re not the prom queen
You’ve no worthy sacrifice
Nor a martyrdom
Just cast to one side
On feet cut by forest floor
To find a way home
He didn’t want you
You’re just along for the ride
A sick afterthought
What it is to be
Swept up in catastrophe
And then abandoned
Once you were new girl
Now a monster used you up
Only sleep will heal
But scars will live on
Ones outside and those within
That senses bring forth
Because you’re alive
The town won’t know your name
You’re not their Laura
Another victim
Not worth even a first name
Just the Pulaski girl
Float in the abyss
our American woman
Wait for an ending
I hope you liked it. It’s a little unfair as I think it’s only Albert who refers to her as the Pulaski girl. She does get attention from people. It just seems to me that she is overshadowed by the general outpouring over Laura’s murder. I wonder how Ronette’s story went, and how she wound up in that other place in The Return
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Lady of the Blue Rose – a poem
Just a Photograph – a haiku sequence
Mike’s Story – a haiku sequence
Are you still seeing this…? Some limericks
Palindrome for Dark Woods – a poem
The Battle of the Bob Bubble – a poem
Cinquains for Lucy, Audrey, Candie and others
Cheers,
Richard
The Ardenna Crossing 
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