Massachusetts's Best Emerging Poets

Geography Lessons

i walk alongside you in silence

or is it the other way around

which of us follows the other

these days

at first, you were the continent, and i

a small and steadfast island in the archipelago of your offspring

but now i desire for more

and having grown 

our tectonic plates collide 

causing mountains of sorrows between us

but moving us closer yet

we thought these ridges drove us apart

but in some way they connect us

each trite argument a small story later

after an admittance of sorrow from your mouth or mine

i know we are not equal

you a plateau of strength

and i the valley of ashen flower

but we rely upon one another

two hemispheres set upon each other

a planet and its moon