StylusLit

March 2022

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At the Lyneham Motor Inn with Gemma

By Shane Strange

Unvarying, they hold us –the silent lines of streets. Cast stone onto stone. We have returned to find versions of ourselves—caught in light, understanding we are not what we were but so close we can touch—our skin made of spirals—combining and recombining like bugs caught in sunlight on a field, or plankton caught in the eddy of a maw waiting like sunset to close everything in the absence of light.