Rattled in the Wind

This piece is only available in the print issue of Belletrist magazine.

Erin Monaghan is seventeen years old and a student at Bellevue High School.

I’m struck dumb suddenly by this egg, this enormity.
This immense incomprehensible oval and its lovely silence.

The speed was raised just as we could bear it, and often, almost always, at our request, because with the increase of speed our pay increased.

& your mouth spills
smoke into my mouth