The Traveler

 

Man is a being of distances.

–Jean-Paul Sartre

 

1

This asylum is emerald green

not white

and the walls have a convex feel.

I have

run my fingers along its skin

felt the pores. It lives

as I breathe.

 

2

Walking at night

 

the great live oaks

slowly pull me toward

shadows

 

their huge limbs

a thousand hands

hiding light

 

I hear faint whispers—

do not go

your place is here

take hold.

 

 

 

 

             Published in the Rattlesnake Review

                                                  

 

                                                  

                                 

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