A scar, a score
it spews, egg-white from satin blue
infinitude, idly sliced through
by some passenger, determined voyager.
So quickly, it fades
rippling, the thread
reknits, repaired.
The dream is whole again.
And of the voyager nothing remains
but a gentle crease along the waves.
Kai Broach writes fiction and poetry. Their work has appeared in Jeopardy and Scribendi magazines, and they are the winner of the 2022 Western Regional Honors Council Award for Short Fiction. They grew up around Washington’s Puget Sound and currently live in Portland, Oregon, where they offer literary and bathroom advice to the customers of Powell’s Books.