Landmark
The train like a wailing pronoun in the dark breath of night when quarantine responds to quarantine and I ask myself how do I get from here to the rest of the world or scale a kinder incline beyond the black noise above this jittery, jumbled ground my eyes rheumy with incessant news, my lips dry from the briny kiss of pundits words gather to call upon landscape sleep a foreigner who keeps me up under a swollen moon weary of suggestions for further study pregnant glossary of regrets and I am wedded to my weary couch denuded in its binocular view the braying train again in periphery its skein of myth and fable trailing behind spectral thresholds blinded by the winds a wolverine in my lap skulls dangle from trees this tasseled place dead air of press conference somewhere between scorched earth and uncharted territory train cars stuffed with undersongs of tarnished narrative clouds pinched across the midnight sky
Rikki won an out-of-county Honorable Mention. Landmark is featured in our first official book publication, In the Quarantined Room: Reflections on the COVID-19 Experience in Indian River County, FL 2020. To find out more about the book and to purchase a copy, click here.
