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Itinerary

Traveling north’s a misnomer, but somewhere

            strings connect until light begins

and then perhaps falls into shade as day’s ending,

            creating its parable

that only fractaled can read.

            You may end again before you know

what to do, but a story of bodies

            evolving may press in on you,

too. If you go further north, you’re doomed to be cold,

            but if you go south again stars set

into water, and it gets so murky

            that areas of shade can’t find a way.

If you stay north, you may be in for some fun,

            and if you head west space will

open out before you, though you may be puzzled

            by synergy of trees

that you find there (and there are wheels).

            An edge of irony that you’re permitted will stay

to still a stone that burrows at your center,

            whichever way you decide to take your traveler’s course.

But a body knows what a home is,

            although each scene can feed fragments

back beyond you, and out.

            And if home is a place where you see belong

emblazoned across the new skyscrapers,

            then why not write instructions, your new part?

As if to find an edge of some other sky,

            you pretend at leaving, cross the lines.

You’ll write a questionnaire again,

            and leave it by a station.

You’ll check in with your own attunement,

            the place where you last left a thread.

Suspicious of structure, now go forth.

Laura Carter

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