Be Straight with Me by Emily Dalton

Author:Emily Dalton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2020-05-08T16:23:13+00:00

FROM PRAGUE TO BERLIN

It’s only five hours by bus to visit you.

I lean my head against the window and admire

the horizon, glowing bright pink with sunset.

Just a few hours later,

my heart is racing, and I can barely keep

the dopey smile off my face as I step off

the bus and scan the empty lot.

We spot each other under

the fluorescent street lamps

and both quicken our paces.

I’m pleasantly surprised when

you immediately go in for the kiss.

On the U-Bahn back to your apartment

we cuddle into each other, talking and laughing, and

this is the first time since arriving

in Europe two weeks ago

that I truly feel at ease.

The next day, I’m standing in front

of Fernsehturm Berlin—the tall, skinny TV Tower

constructed in 1960s communist Germany

as one big middle finger to the cathedral-dominated skyline.

Legend has it, when the sun hits the dome

at the top of the Telespargel

(TV-asparagus, as it is comically called),

the light creates the shape of a cross,

otherwise known as “the Pope’s Revenge.”

I do the classic

Let me stand here and do this

so it looks like I’m touching the tip!

while you and your roommates,

Olivia and Charlotte, laugh

at how off I am with my aim.

Then we get on a boat that takes us

down the Spree River.

The tour is in German, so you whisper

brief translations to me

as we sail through the city

holding hands, newly in love

and newly in Europe.

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