Friday, February 5, 2021

the atlas map

i don't know how to get there
from here.
i'm lost.
i'm wandering in a circle,
as i often do.
going left when i should
have gone right.
i have the dome light on
and staring into
my phone. i take out the old
atlas map with
the numbered grids.
it must weigh twenty pounds.
i haven't used this map since
i met the lady in red
in wheaton.
twenty years ago.
i've still have the skull 
and cross bones etched
in black indicating
where she lived.

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