When I returned
When I returned home I could not remember my town
The streets were squares and rules
The lights by the fountains at night
People streamed past I found it embarrassing
running into your old best friend
at above all places a grocery store
and by god it’s been ten years
and I’m trying to explain how my boss is a sadistic p****
her mother is standing quietly behind her
and the lights in the store are humming bright loud
Vanessa Saunders is an graduate from the University of East Anglia. She loves Paul Celan and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. twitter: @postcardsfrmv