JNANA HODSON

FREE FALL

Half of our penultimate conversation
occurred after we hung up. This upside-down

hum-drum patched-together survival
perplexes. What strand of negativity wound

the initial shock when I was told
I wouldn’t go West this summer but would

instead battle the seniority of twelve coworkers
clustering a holiday to their three-week vacation.

Your romping banter with infants had me stirring
too many Tanqueray pyrotechnic distillations.
© 2003 Jnana Hodson
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