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Description
The locks don’t latch
behind you as you leave;
four keys, three doors, one room,
a wardrobe,
a bike lock.

The ease of the fist-sized blossoms,
(Dad’s fist, not mine),
beneath the bridge and
well above the surface of the water
are the difference in drive between
eleven time zones of jetlag
stretched tight across three months
and a language barrier.

The perforations in the
prescription blister packs
section away days;
I punch through the foil
to cross them off.

Consonants tangle in my mouth,
dead lotus necks braiding
beneath a bridge.

Description
The locks don’t latch
behind you as you leave;
four keys, three doors, one room,
a wardrobe,
a bike lock.

The ease of the fist-sized blossoms,
(Dad’s fist, not mine),
beneath the bridge and
well above the surface of the water
are the difference in drive between
eleven time zones of jetlag
stretched tight across three months
and a language barrier.

The perforations in the
prescription blister packs
section away days;
I punch through the foil
to cross them off.

Consonants tangle in my mouth,
dead lotus necks braiding
beneath a bridge.