WITHOUT  A  SCRATCH

by Maria Knisely





Sitting like a statue in your passenger seat;
eyes fixed on the approaching city skyline,
jaw set in silence.
I say nothing in response
to the insistent drone that is your life.
I cannot understand a word you are saying because
I'm not really listening.
I'm wondering what the weather's like in Saskatchewan today and
what it's like to chase a dream through a forest
and then emerge on the other side bruised and bleeding
but feeling comforted and whole
instead of empty and beaten without a scratch



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