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Sam Frost

Points of Geological Interest

You point to the road sign with your fist
half clenched around your McMuffin
and I’
m thankful for the miles you latched
to car tires, and McDonald’
s breakfast
grease spread on my fingertips,
and the mountains beside us,
and the way bug guts squish as we pass
the middle-aged woman driving an RV
fit for a queen wearing white linens
or maybe a stained Old Navy 4th of July t-shirt.


I wonder if everyone knows
when they see us we are still learning
how to turn love into a verb,
and how to read different books
on the same couch, and lick lips,
and spread legs, and cry in the middle of sex.
I wonder where I stop and you begin
and if on days where my flesh turns hot
on your flesh, I will always think of how
I didn’
t know I was looking for this,
a chest that can deflate in a good way,
a kind of knot that’
s both undone and tied
to lungs that tingle with fresh air.

I’ve already forgotten which small town
was home to the point of geological interest
too vague for a real sign, something
that would say “I am here, I am here,
”
because I am looking at you, sunglasses
turning the brim of your nose pink
and biscuit crumbs on your wrinkled shirt,
and I am thinking of all the people I never loved,
and the nights smoking weed on the balcony
with that guy who played drums
for a band I never checked out.

And I don’t really smoke weed anymore,
but I’
m still not sure how to touch myself
in a way that feels like I’
ve come
home at 2 a.m. and found leftover pasta salad
in the bowl behind the chopped celery,
and I’
m not sure I’ve learned how to feel
anything in the right way.

On this two-lane road with you smiling,
and my feet on the window leaving toe marks,
and you skipping songs I don’
t like,
​I think love is easier than we make it.

Biography

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Sam Frost (she/her) is a writer who spends too much time and money drinking kombucha and is always craving fast food breakfast. Find more work at C&P Quarterly, Ghost City Review, Floodlight Poetry, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter @sammfrostt
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