by Sydney Ard

if you are driving very quickly in the pouring rain about sixty miles an hour or so 

and briefly pass under a small bridge 

you will notice a sudden and absolute loss of sound 

in the world around you 

before the chatter picks up again 

This is What It’s Like to Watch Someone as They Die 

an infinite void is opened before your eyes 

where their life once was 

the tiniest of moments lost to time 

as it becomes an instant that you forever remember 

and yet somehow 

immediately forget 

This is Exactly the Same Moment as When You Lose Your Hearing in a Storm 


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sydnie Ard is a twenty-two-year-old art student from the isolated rice fields of Louisiana. While constantly writing poems in her head, she spends the majority of her time painting, baking, reading to her grandmother, and listening to music with her parakeet. This is her first published work.  

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