The Travel Version of Longing
Poem
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1 min readMay 8, 2024
It’s out of reach. That’s why she is so slow to try
the travel version of longing.
For days, she sits on the beach like a statue,
thinking in long, low notes,
At odds with reality.
Maybe she will occur to him
as he slides past the signs
between one relapse and another,
As the…