The world was larger then.
The vastness of California still a mystery
(Still. A mystery.)
to easterners
who seemed to believe San Franciscans
could just pop down to L.A. for an afternoon
(Or would.)
who thought we all talked, like, ohmygawd!
And if you know what I mean,
you understand.
The vastness of California, of Nebraska,
or, from a different point of view, Pennsylvania.
A question that, now, can only be resolved
with a map you cannot fold.
But we know, you and I — those folds
themselves were essential to the mystery,
an unending source of wonder to anyone
who opened a map, then tried to fold it up again.
© 2020 by Hannah Six
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