where people sit at desks and make maps.
1:1 scale maps
on paper that never ends.
women named ellen and men
named keith draw straight edges
on pages dyed to hide the pieces of brown
that look like the pieces of brown they draw
onto the white.
drawing a house takes patience
that only resides on curled lips
and eyes that push together like
an eroding mountain. a mountain
drawn with ink from a well
shaped like folded hands
holding drinking water.
we all draw maps of hawaii
we're ashamed of.
ellen draws contours in red
of volcanoes upside down
like a tan carton of eggs.
keith draws the same thing
on a different continent,
labeling it with a sticker
covered in numbers.
he thinks to himself
that he can do much better.
i can do better than this map,
there are better fjords
better fields that still have
wild flowers.
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