rainbows in curved air (or curves in rainbowed air)

Car Accident Victim

A dusty,X-ray photograph of someone's delicate insides, lay outside, on the barren roadside

squashed flat

It seemed absurd to think of the number of times,

that this poor soul had been run over.

I thought I saw traces of blood on the furtherest corner of the print.

I also detected a slight stench of death,

but then, that smell is always present along the roadside.

Tyretracks traced a line along his brittle

a speck of bird-shit on his left shoulder,

but, on close inspection, one could see,

that all his ribs were broken

& that the backbone was split in two

& that the shoulderbone was fractured.

Obviously,the owner of this X-ray, had died in a car crash.

Where was he?

who was he ?

& how did this X-ray get here.

Just then, the wind whipped the print up into the sky for an instant & then carried it further on up the road

for someone else to find

& ponder upon.