Rounding the unexpected corner, onto a dead end, uncharted by cyber.

Traveling light, in my fast new car, I still couldn’t dodge that old kick in the head—mortality.

GETAWAY BY NANCY LIND 34THPARALLEL MAGAZINE ISSUE 71

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Rounding the unexpected corner,

onto a dead end, uncharted by cyber,

an unweeded graveyard 

rips my suit of flesh to rags.

It almost stares back at me.

Next to a small heap of flagstones,

once a church, those old…