- His biggest complaint with the city is the guardrails.
He wants astounding landscapes but does not
wish to discuss with the architect it
is just a matter of design with consideration
for pedestrians he is asking me for the color
of the lake when it is frozen
– surely blue?
he doesn’t want anyone to know how he smiles
in green lamplight - with eyes closed he will
ask you if maybe the 24-hour hormone cycle is not true -
- I am googling the homophones hostel and hostile
tracing a word back to its source – before
militaries and telephones and air travel – when
host could mean someone who invites the foreign
body in knowing them not as guest or enemy, but
– welcome stranger.
Meredith MacLeod Davidson is a poet and writer from Virginia, currently based in Scotland, where she earned an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Meredith has poems in Propel Magazine, Cream City Review, Poetry South, Frozen Sea, JMWW, and elsewhere.
