By Rachelle Toarmino
everywhere
people are looking at each other
through the wrong end of binoculars
it is so gaudy and gruesome
getting used
to someone again
there is the first moment
when you realize that someday
you will know this person
very intimately
and still it will feel
like returning to something
People are also reading…
like you’re becoming
less specific
Contributor’s Note: RACHELLE TOARMINO will join fellow PressBoardPress authors Nava Fader and Patrick Riedy for a reading at 6 p.m. Friday at Rust Belt Books, 415 Grant St. Her first chapbook, “Personal & Generic” (PressBoardPress), is a collection of visual poetry. She is a teacher at St. Mark School, clerk at Talking Leaves Books and co-founder and curator of Peach Mag, a new literary magazine. This poem originally appeared in the spring 2016 issue of Alien Mouth.
