Gabriella?


By instinct, surface ways, or subway schedules, 
travel with this map.  I am a state 
that like yours reaches water 
at its eastern limits.  Fresh water to salt, 
the canals connect charged bodies.
We strive despite location.  Long toward
a receptacle for returning, 
a home for the second I saw your effervescence.

Speakers too close too soon cause interference
interference sounds like rain. 
Lightning reveals an afternoon inside the night.
The right distance allows hope into the pause
before the sound. 

Don't blink at the thunder
of intersection.

Jennifer Styperk's poetry has been published in The Texas Observer and Language And Culture and is forthcoming in the Denver Quarterly, There Journal, and Open City, among other literary magazines, and has been included in the exhibitions titled Translate This, Take Note, Audio Body, and the grand opening reception and exhibition of Artworks in Johnstown. A recipient of a James A. Michener Grant for Writers and the Thomas Dobbs, Jr. Scholarship for Journalism, she, native of Pittsburgh, PA, currently resides in Los Angeles.

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