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2006
Contest Winner
Traveling Without a Map Margaret Hoehn
That night we spent on the thirty-fourth
floor of the Mandarin Hotel— we had quarreled, painfully, earlier in the day. And later, standing by the windows at dusk, we were remote and polite. Rain and mist swept in against the glass while the theaters and shops, the restaurants and sidewalks, slipped away, leaving only the lights of the city below.
Stranded in sky, we watched as the traffic
transformed the boulevards into luminous rivers of scarlet and gold. I saw how arrival and departure can flow side by side without touching, as they leave each other behind. The way a man and a woman, who stand in the clouds at night, can so easily do.
Sometimes, silence is the blanket
that draws two people close, but that night, it was the vacant space where an angled rain had begun to fall. I wondered, what words could build us a boat, could row us back home?
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