Sonic Boom

By Chloe Wright

Relative to the sound I'm making
as I round the corner in your front yard,
There is a point held together by three truths.
Some have been broken.
But one remains untouched.

Relative to the speed at which
my father falls from the sky
and meets the ground.

To the zone in which he leaves his body,
and I leave mine.

Relative to the speed at which you find him.
At a rate unmatched by anything prior.

At which you break.

There grows a sonic boom.

Your departure, faster than the speed of sound

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Chloe Wright is the proud daughter of Colonel Darron Lee Wright. Chloe was seventeen years old when Colonel Wright passed away on September 23rd, 2013 in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina – the same military base in which she was born on July 4th, 1996. Chloe reflects on September 23rd as the day her life changed forever and views her life in two halves; before and after her father’s death. Now an artist and Gallery Director in Houston, TX, Chloe’s visual art and poetry practice explore trauma and the events surrounding her father’s death. Through writing and visual art, Chloe is forever connected to her father and lives each day with his memory in mind.