No one needs to invent time travel by Christiana Doucette
First published in The Thieving Magpie
No one needs to invent time travel
It’s already here. We’re already traveling.
The slam of a door layers then with now.
Raised voices split screen brains
send us back to prisms of pain.
The moment of terror as the airplane turns just so.
Oh, sky that certain clear cold blue, we go
back. We are washing dishes here
suds between our fingers. Indoor. But fear
places us in the car. Plays the announcers
voice crumbling like block towers. Fall.
Time travel exists inside us all. Thinning reality.
What we need to invent is a way away from time’s debris.
A…
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