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PS: Your Poem a Week w/ Philippe Shils

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22. Love letter 14. Asylum seeker.

4/25/2020

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22. Love letter 14. Asylum seeker.

We watched the great man
and bowed together. All
holding hands in a chain.
You were as noticeable to
me as a mottled egg.

Escape you whispered.
No one else heard.
Escape hissed in the flags
and the rolling tires.
No one else understood.

I gathered up my things.
Made them into balls.
I'd never packed to
go anywhere. I made
luggage from a box
that was a table
now maybe a boat.

There were piles of
shoes at the river. You said
you’ll walk until
you begin to sink
because you can't swim
then you’ll drift and cling.

I went awkwardly past
the checkpoint. Stood on
a beach. My box
of rolled things will
float I hoped.
I lingered on

your tardy curtsy.
Your dry eyes
amidst moist faces.
Your sidelong
glance implied.
We did something
other than pray
to be unbuoyed
by ideology.

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    Philippe Shils - he lives in central Illinois. He has chapbooks available from Underground Books, Right Hand Pointing Press, and a collaborative one with his band The Red Wheelbarrows available at gigs and on Facebook by request. He plays old time banjo and has two kids who are patient with their father.
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