Geography is not important.
Everywhere
is the operative word.
Bared soul.
Barefoot.
Bare.
Tread carefully.
Mind your underbelly.
Be a turtle.
Carry the essence
in your hold-all.
No roots allowed
past the security check.
They can see with
their X-ray machines.
You carry
a sharp, merciless
switchblade
made of stainless
grief.
*’Heimweh’ is more than ‘Nostalgia’
A German-born UK national, Rose Mary Boehm lives Lima, Peru. Author of one full-length poetry collection and two chapbooks, her work has been widely published in mostly US poetry journals. Her latest full-length poetry MS, ‘The Rain Girl’, has been accepted for publication in June 2020 by Blue Nib. Her poem, ‘Old Love’s Sonnet’, has been nominated for a Pushcart by Shark Reef Journal where it was published in the Summer of 2019.
