<p style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal"><font><span>CLUTCH</span><br><br></font>

</p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">we
drove to a space</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">a
long clearing</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">where
the towers</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">could
be seen</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">busily</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">all-reaching</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">up</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">in
white glory</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">across
in gloom</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">ready.</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">that
was all.</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">traffic
slowed mightily</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">in
the wake.</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">for
a moment</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">all</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">together</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">held.</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
<br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">for
a moment</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">so
ready</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">to
be crushed.</span></font><span style="font-family:Tahoma"></span></p>





<br clear="all"><br><br><div><b>Laura Theobald</b> is a recent graduate in literature and creative 
writing from the University of Tampa. She currently works various jobs 
and lives in Atlanta. Her works have appeared on <i>plain china, Glass Mountain, Quilt, <a href="http://movingpoems.com/" target="_blank">movingpoems.com</a>, </i>and most recently in a collaborative piece titled "these sentences are not a poem" in <i>Typo Magazine.</i></div>
<br>-- <br>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>