In Every Closeness a Pushing Out to the Edge

"Branch, branch, creek," 2004, by Heather Smith Jones

In Every Closeness a Pushing Out to the Edge


If you miss a place take up its map
and let your finger dawdle along streets
and blue streets of rivers

This is not completely dissimilar from visiting

in the way that oh
going to library approximates some fragment
of what it is to read a book

[Image above by Heather Smith Jones]