VIBRALUX

Jenny Mae Leffel will never sing again

Her voice is lost in the rafters of heaven

Her notes shower the earth with meteors

The smoke of the verses rises and tears

The syntax disintegrates as time totals

Her careening chariot the smashed wheels

Bent but still turning in the afterglow,

This refuge, this remnant, this echo,

Of crashing symbols and a piercing

Siren above the screech of steel strings