Pompeii'd

 

Pompeii'd

Gracie Gallagher

I am not frozen:

I have just been Pompeii’d.

There is life

beyond this rubble,

there is breath

underneath this ash.

I am not broken:

my edges have just been frayed

by the passing of the people,

by the weariness of the day.

Gracie Gallagher

Gracie Gallagher is a junior theatre studies and writing double major who's interested in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

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