Poetry – Issue 7 | November 2009
This Map
by John Byrne
This map proclaims that I am here
When here’s not where I want to be.
I’ve made my wishes very clear
But it insists that I am here.
I truly think I should be near
A place that only minds can see.
This map insists that I am here
When here’s not where I ought to be.
About the author
John Byrne is an American-Irish citizen, and currently lives in Oregon. His short stories and poems have been published most recently in Centrifugal Eye, Naugutuck River Review, and Umbrella Journal. This piece is a product of two recent trips to France and his last extended stay in Ireland.
Read our current issue, Issue 7 | November 2009:
Poetry
Berlin by Sy Margaret Baldwin
Two Poems by Sean Edgley
After Your Funeral I Set Out to Find You in Different Time Zones by Jennifer Faylor
Painter by Ricky Garni
Other Than by Dana Guthrie Martin
Two poems by Timothy Kercher
Five Views of Guanajuato: A Mythology by Athena Kildegaard
Two poems by Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
Goya by Trent Nutting
The Changing of the Flowers by Jennifer Saunders
Two poems by Ken Turner
Postcard prose
Buttons by Jennifer Faylor
The Enemy Tree by Kirby Wright
Escape on the Canal by Addie Zierman
