the new world - Lynn Mally

[Larry Robinson]

the new world
 
in the hot months
the maps are singing
of places beyond the everyday
 
 
and I see
Columbus
packing his bags with hopes
and diseases
leaving for a world
that he didn’t want to find
 
how often we’ve headed
for the new world
finding everything
the maps had promised:
a plotted landscape
a measured sea
 
these maps have made the world flat
do not use them
 
they can show us
all there is
but there are no roads
to where we have to go

	- Lynn Mally