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Chance Encounter - Lisa Fannen

from Faultline by Lisa Fannen and...

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  • Faultline is a collection of poetry published by Active Distribution/Sto Citas, November 2018. The poems are political and personal (and an examination of where those territories meet), observational and contemplative, and travel through explorations of social inequality, police violations, street homelessness in the US, environmental disaster, intimate experiences of queer sexuality, rites of passage and bereavement, also the power of guidance and renewal. Paperback, 127 pages.
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Chance encounter

I left the baking city
the train plunging into thick sea fog
and at the end of the line, no brakes
slipping chain, rode the perimeter fence
that marks the land stolen
from the shoreline
forbidden
in blue print

Weekend permitted
the barriers raised
stick to the path
spent shells or munitions
to be left unhandled
between the firing ranges
everywhere was hawthorn and
everywhere it was all in flower

I made it to the Wakering Stairs
where the sea pulls away for miles
seeping over the mudflats, then
the coast path that bends to Southend
where the weekend had swollen in
small town, the front smelling
of chip fat and sugar

It was busy, people taking
rides under bassy speakers
and flashing lights the colour
of boiled sweets

I walked the pier, a mile and a quarter
stretching into the mist, just the sound
of those wooden boards over the waves
that were deep and deepening

Made a chance encounter
by the cafeteria where the skeleton
ceases and there’s only water rocking
at its frame — man from Colombia
who had run the length of the pier out
and, inspired, I readied myself
to join him running it back

Effortless in his skin, soft pacing
light in his steps he made easy
conversation even as I had to dig in
thinking — the land in sight —
I might not make it

Our ending, pleased beaming
a brief farewell, an embrace —
his photo of me staggering
to the finish, he tripped off
still running, disappeared
into the promenade crowds
calling back

You know —
you have to do something
to remember each day by

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from Faultline, released May 22, 2020
Voice recorded by Jer Reid.
Sound produced and mixed by Lisa Fannen

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