Telepathy

by Karen McPherson

we were nineteen and he said we could read each other’s minds and I couldn’t but pretended to believe in that bright highway stretching through the air between us that splinter of intention drilling its way through the bone of our two skulls a thought a vision shared as he stared at me from across the room, said feel it? and I didn’t but nodded yes because this was how we made the world what we imagined it to be here comes the sun he sang and I closed my eyes keeping in the light holding in the shadows

Karen McPherson is a post-academic, wokeproud, elderqueer poet and literary translator. She is the author of Skein of Light and the chapbooks Sketching Elise and Long for This World. Her work has appeared in literary journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, Cincinnati Review, Atlanta Review, and The Women’s Review of Books.