Passing Through

Avik Chanda

 

Draw a line of light in the blue: then

thumbs pressed together along its seam

like nutcracking, open up streets for

abbeys, music, carriages with watery

peopled shadows. And a name: Salzburg.

 

And on a nightdrive through this name,

the pilgrim shakes off his hooded nothingness

watching the lights mellow to candled out

carbon smells. Seated there alone, watching.

 

Avik Chanda (England)  has had work appear in Adirondack Review, Black Bear Review, Rearview Quarterly, Slant, and elsewhere.


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