No one needs to invent time travel by Christiana Doucette

One Poem Only · Jul 2, 2025 · 2m

First published in The Thieving Magpie No one needs to invent time travelIt’s already here. We’re already traveling.The slam of a door layers then with now.Raised voices split screen brainssend us back to prisms of pain.The moment of terror as the airplane turns just so.Oh, sky that certain clear cold blue, we goback. We are washing dishes heresuds between our fingers. Indoor. But fearplaces us in the car. Plays the announcersvoice 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 failsafe to replace…