screech
rustle
sneeze, cough, chorus,
Thank you.

low hum
door slam
clickclack
Nothing.

A match strikes the horizon,
the day set alight.

Everything is going to be alright.

Ellen Higgins is a daughter, sister, friend, student, and, sometimes, a poet. Her work has previously appeared in Kissing Dynamite Poetry Journal and Crossways Literary Magazine as well as in The Piranha: Trinity’s Satirical Newspaper.