Boomerang Noose
Boomerang Noose by PhilBaumann
She beat the assembled with the red pleasure of authority.
Day before, she saved a kitten from a wicked house.
Last year, she took a bullet for a kidnapped girl.
The orders rained from clean offices of stubborn fog:
she caught her eye in his pupil, regretted, and then leathered his arm.
Day after, a nurse quit the trauma unit.
Next year, a market of rotted promises collapsed,
a budget broke in half,
a pink slip fell out of the fog as it left
and her cold foot kicked away the kitchen chair.
