The Way Back

by Linda Lowe

We woke to the clip-clop sounds of horse-drawn wagons and carriages and men in stove-pipe hats hollering, where are we, as they stepped out into the 21st century, milling around our cul-de-sac, impressed with our cars. We offered to show them the way back, and lead them behind our homes, circling the canyon, pointing out the hills in the distance, hazy as a mirage. Hills we called the past. We knew some of what they would find: war, disease, strife. We said good luck, but nothing more. There was too much history between us, too much for them to misunderstand.

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Linda Lowe's chapbook of poems, "Karmic Negotiations" was published by Sarasota Theatre Press. Online, her work as appeared in Misfit Magazine, Gone Lawn, Six Sentences, The New Verse News, and others.