Atonement
Which one travels
toward the stranger?
Who in nightspeed slits
of borders, time zones
word-maps crossing
multilingual
what’s on the tongue
risking trust
without translation
atonement in a zip of light
drawn across the sky’s
at(one)ment
as the light shifts
but does not separate
one with other, one.
This poem appears in Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureates on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press, 2019) and in Vortex Street (FutureCycle Press, 2018).
Heather H. Thomas is the author of Vortex Street, Blue Ruby (FootHills Publishing, 2008), and other poetry books. Her poems are forthcoming in The Wallace Stevens Journal, Barrow Street, Planet in Crisis, and The Shining Rock Poetry Anthology. Connect with her at www.heatherhthomas.com and on Facebook.
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