Remember when the sky fell below our feet,
time wasting at the fringes? It became the cracks
we stepped on in fear and joy, slippery
in their changing. Remember the clouds, love?
How they became our stepping stones
when we had to go separate ways, the tall hill
between our homes steep with longing
and real monsters. As the sun sets in Ohio,
I imagine your bike trailing its way
to a lab full of your rocks. Do you imagine
them as little markers? Each one a set distance
from your goal of peace. No shame in a late start.
No shame in weeping on the journey home.
Cloe Watson is a graduate of the MFA program at Bowling Green State University. Her work has been featured in Cimarron Review, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Atlas and Alice, Flying Island Literary Journal, Blue Unicorn, The Windsor Review, Oakland Review, Grand Little Things, The Racket Journal, Wingless Dreamer, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, and Defunkt Magazine.
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