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The route would be routine by now
If only I remembered how.
The signs I am supposed to use
Are all too likely to confuse.
Some arrow at some intersection
Leads me in some obscure direction.
I go as far out of my way
As I did just the other day.
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Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Georgia. Her first collection, Unloosed, and her second, Tides & Currents, are both available from Kelsay Books.
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Whenever I decide to leave
The suite for just a bit,
My ever-loving better half
Declines to have a fit.
He graciously bids me farewell
Before or after noon,
And I interpret “take your time”
As “don’t come back too soon.”
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Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Georgia. Her first collection, Unloosed, and her second, Tides & Currents, are both available from Kelsay Books.
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A hotel suite is quintessential
When treatment makes us residential.
Between the separate rooms must be
A door to shut you off from me.
We need the chance to get away
From one another night or day.
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Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Georgia. Her first collection, Unloosed, and her second, Tides & Currents, are both available from Kelsay Books.
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Tests indicate your body needs
a little extra zapping:
The specialists go right to work
on necessary mapping.
We soon turn our attention to
some spatial calculations:
Rochester’s maze of subway and
skywalk configurations.
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Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Georgia. Her first collection, Unloosed, and her second, Tides & Currents, are both available from Kelsay Books.
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Son arrives for a tour
of dad’s new house
with dad’s new wife.
In the master bedroom
everything gets
more awkward.
Son points to the light
attached to the fan
suspended from the ceiling.
“What’s that?” he asks.
Dad tries to look blank
and says nothing
as the pause gets pregnant.
Wife infers, not ignorance,
but rejection, even ridicule,
in a former setting.
Son is left to wonder
about the power
of a woman on a man.
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Jane Blanchard lives and writes in Georgia. Her chapbook Unloosed is forthcoming from White Violet Press.
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