Chris Young's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Taint, Samsara Quarterly, MiPo, Stirring, The DMQ Review, Eclectica, Lily, Miller's Pond, Avatar Review, Wind and others. He lives in Oregon and teaches tennis.
she must have been a million miles this way toward me I wasn't
sure she must have been asking for a way
through what I couldn't be sure there would even be road to
travel I never asked from which direction
she had been led at which sign
she had turned from which place and why
she wasn't saying exactly where she thought she would be
It has to do with spreading herself across nights and beds.
Days for a lover. Lights out for long hours. Driving
outside limits. Speeds and towns. And whether things are moving
in or out of focus. It has to do with who she is
to herself. How the room would look if the window were gone.