Meant to Be
The road a long ribbon
of rising dust
the roadside stand piled
with charred flatbread
who here can say
with any certainty
they weren’t meant
to be somewhere else
dressed in a stranger’s clothes
Karina Borowicz’s collection The Bees Are Waiting (2012) was selected by Franz Wright for the Marick Press Poetry Prize and has been named a Must-Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Her work has appeared widely in journals, and her translations have been featured in Poetry Daily.
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Vallum: Contemporary Poetry 