One More Thing

This poem, from my book of poems in progress, To Open Life Between Us, explores how life will stop us and even shut us down, if we won’t face what is ours to face.

One More Thing
I Didn’t Know

If we won’t change, things 
will tighten until they snap.
For example, I ran obsessively 
through the streets of Albany 
in my thirties.
 
I thought I was runni…