A contemporary poem about sideways through the ordinary, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The bus arrives facing the wrong street. Nobody complains; we climb in with our groceries. At the next stop, a woman gives the driver directions using the name of a place that no longer exists. I get off beside a locked bakery. The bread is still warm. Some departures know more than the map.
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