ISSUE: Winter 2013
Seeing again
your
face
after two or
three years
was not strange
or terrible
it didn’t make me
feel sad
or nostalgic
but clinical
as if I were viewing
a creature
with whom
I had once been involved
in a terrifying
medical experiment
and now
here she was
this damaged animal
slightly altered
but still breathing
fire
and I was thankful
you were only
up there
on the screen
tearing the scenery
to shreds
instead
of me