Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970 and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of five poetry collections, including The Octopus Museum, So Much Synth, and Our Andromeda. She is an assistant professor of English at Rutgers–Newark, and lives in Verona, New Jersey, with her family.

Drift

by Brenda Shaughnessy

I’ll go anywhere to leave you but come with me.
All the cities are like you anyway. Windows
darken when I get close enough to see.
Any place we want to stay’s polluted,

the good spots taken already by those
who ruin them. And restaurants we’d never find.
People on couch
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