beautiful_as_pictures_no_man_drew blueberries i woke abruptly at 824 am sunday morning unaware that jamie coming home from rockwood had hit an embankment going too fast and flipped over. she spun on her roof and slid 2oo feet down the lonely country road. emerging mercifully unscathed, she crawled out of the door, picked up her scattered belongings (paintings, fiona apple cds, clothes)and called from her cell phone at 83o. after talking with her and telling her i was on my way to get her, i realized i woke from dream just as she had the accident. when i arrived, ambulance lights were flashing, flares were burning, and state police cars were pulled off at sharp, concerned angles. then i saw the saturn, upside down, winshield and back window smashed, glittering glass, some of which lodged into jamie's hand. transmission oil was leaking like blood from a wound, clumps of grass and soil stuck in the bumper, snatched greedily from the earth. long, jagged scrape marks were on the asphalt, irritating evidence of scratches bad boys make on chalkboards, the brushburns of the soul. when jamie saw me, she came running and we embraced like magnets that would never come apart, as if love and gratitude for life was a vacuum and all of it had rushed up between us. the hands of death lost their grip. it was not her time. she is too amazing, beautiful as pictures no man drew. later she told me that her boyfriend, konrad(of whose house she had left before the accident) was on his way to work and was stopped by a volunteer fireman at the accident scene. konrad asked if the car was a saturn. the guy said yes, so he jumped out of his car and rushed to the ambulance, banged on the doors and exploded into tears when he saw jamie was alright. i'm very happy to know she has someone that loves her so much. 011209 ... niki i'm glad your friend is okay blue...that same kind of accident happened to me and i too was lucky enough to survive 011209 ... unhinged when i crawled out of the car after my accident, i didn't have a cell phone to make calls with. i didn't have magnet hugs or concerned boyfriends. i woke up the next morning and cried by myself for awhile that i should have been dead but i wasn't. for some odd reason, i was still alive. 011209 ... whoknows *hugs unhinged* 011209 what's it to you? who go blather from