I’m avoiding the obvious
sign like a red stop I roll through.
It may be a new year but there you are
descending a staircase
as I exit the store.
Truth be told, I’ve imagined
this crossing many times before,
a fantasy I rehearse
about touching
the stem of a rainbow
at the place it springs forth from earth.
Why do I try
to tidy my mind from
the debris of the past when
it keeps reappearing, as if from nowhere,
like a head-on collision
so visceral!
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