You Had Me at Transport, Emily Dickinson

O! Make me a personal mass transit map—

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Square

Martian Jenny Place

Falafel Paper Park

But what shall I call the hub at the heart

of the city

where my spirit is the numerator divided—

by east, west, south, and northbound trains?

O, I know!

Friday Night Station.

Bread & wine–

at the center of time &

throe.

—July, 2018

Published in “An Evening with Emily Dickinson, an Anthology by Wingless Dreamer, June, 2021 and in my first collection, Shops Close Too Early (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2022).