December 8, 2022 - “Once I see the bend” by Elizabeth Lerman

I forget that Union Square is a little slanted, inside, down the stairs, where the subway is - the tracks turn where the 4 pulls up and it looks too much like the caricature curve of the one I see in my sleep, and after that, I am not so sure what’s real and what isn’t, because once I see the bend, the one that looks like it should be at the bottom of another world, I start to see other things too, like the alligator on the ad in the train car, the way the windows in there look like the ones missing from the planes in my dreams, and when asleep is just as vivid as awake, I start to wonder where the former waits when my eyes are open.