April 5, 2021
Photo by Martí Blesa
Within Reach
by Melanie Faith
It is, indeed,
something
good to be
one and small
of many who are
one and small.
It is, indeed,
filled
with gray
potential,
elemental
to advance
in ordinary sandals
against cement.
More and more
rectangles
await our future.
Stacked lenses
mirrored,
So when we wave—
that pleasant
pain bloomed
there in the back
of the neck—
we wave back
looking up.