Poetry by AJ Saur
When the 7 a.m. sun suddenly
beams your windshield, you may discover
yourself in the back window of a city bus
a great deal more serious than you knew.
Perhaps it’s not surprising considering
how you flew out of the house without
your morning coffee, without a goodbye
kiss, without a single word shifting the new air.
Now, thanks to traffic, you’re inching
toward yourself, cautious, uncertain
of this one who acts in opposite
at every turn. Enlightened, block after
block, by the set chin, high cheekbones,
those steely eyes spanning
the distance from a someone so thoroughly
other you catch yourself, for a moment, wondering
where he’s headed on this average Wednesday
and, if you flash a smile, will he follow?
AJ Saur is the author of five books of poetry from Murmuration Press including, most recently, Of Bone and Pinion (2022). AJ’s poems have also appeared (or will soon appear) in Abandoned Mine, Front Range Review, Glimpse, The Midwest Quarterly, Muse, Third Wednesday, Willow Review, and other journals.
