Danielle Mckinney, Mercy (detail), featured in AGNI 103
If you are traveling with a live child
forget canyons,
monuments
they are all genitalia anyway
which is why fathers
always take pictures
and wouldn’t Freud have a cigar
day with that
but no one is allowed
to smoke anymore
especially
after sex
because it kills
the feng shui
of the moment
and what is traveling
besides moments
where we are
where we are not meant to be
which explains
the pictures
the desire
to say to anyone
who will listen
I was here.
Published:
| Online 2003
Betsy Johnson-Miller
Betsy Johnson-Miller is a poet, pastor, and author of a young-adult novel series. Her work has appeared in The Seattle Review, AGNI, Ascent, The Chiron Review, and elsewhere. (updated 6/2010)
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