Agoraphobia
- Agoraphobia
On my knees before the first leaves to open—
— Jennifer Militello
you’re reminded of walkingpaths picking strawberries,
dogwoods scattering their white,how all that outside waits,
some winged thing betweenwindow & screen & for no
reason, ground swell: extractionof air, a geodesy flipped like
hands slipping off the Earthor missing the exit & caught
in a line of cars, semis, a hundredmoths colliding, rising in your chest
& the heart’s misfiring, thenover a bridge then catapulting
through a tunnel, the darknessan interminable river & someone
keeps mouthing Bend backwardsover this mountain. [End Page 8]
Janine Certo’s poems appear or are forthcoming in The Greensboro Review, Mid-American Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod and Quiddity, among others. Her debut poetry collection, In the Corner of the Living, was first runner-up for the 2017 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. www.janinecertopoet.com.
