For the Programmer by Rachel J. Bennett | Really System: Issue Four

For the Programmer

Rachel J. Bennett

I would run with: you: or
perhaps have already
run this and: forgotten

how epiphanic: it became:
splinters: of sun breaking
my skin into your skin: your

thinking: so close I could taste
the next perfection: could
see the books: becoming

varsity equations: fraught
as the: blue coin: integral as
your absence and its

extraterrestrial name:
Sometimes: something
no one else sees: falls

outside my window:
There are hands
and strings: behind the

hands and at my
healthiest: I: imagine
we've held: the same

number to the same:
fire at least: since the first
distance turned: to another:

Rachel J. Bennett likes outliers. Her chapbook, On Rand McNally's World, is forthcoming (Summer 2015) from dancing girl press. A few places her poems live are Sixth Finch, Similar:Peaks::, Rattle, Big Lucks, Salt Hill, and Vinyl. You can find her on the M train and @rachtree11.

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