All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran

Author:Paul Tran [Tran, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2022-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Invention slid into my mind tonight, like a formal feeling, just as

I slid my body into my bodysuit. It was August again.

Found in my purse was a boarding pass. And there I was looking through

A telescope in the fog-covered field as someone drew closer.

Way in the distance, the stars appeared. Still fixed. Still luminous.

I’m going to be far from my pain one day. I’m going to

No longer feel that pain but something new and just as merciless.

Artifact of the past. Artifice of the future. There I was in the tall grass

Between the choices I’d made and the choices I was given. The fog’s ambivalent

Art made it so that I saw only what was in front of me.

And no matter what drew closer—the stranger in the field or the field itself,

Fact or fiction, my need or my desire—I had to focus on what I could see.

I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us.

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