Today's poem is by Allison Joseph

Traveling Alone
        for JT

I always miss you most
when coming back to you
from some faraway coast,
some unfamiliar view.

The closer I arrive,
the further that I feel.
Airports are netherworlds
where nothing is revealed.

I want to glimpse your face
before I know I can,
impatient for the place
where I'll see you again—

no crowded airplane aisles,
no evening flight delays.
I want to shrink the miles
until they fall away—

no suitcases to claim,
no rush hour to fight.
I'd like to blink my eyes,
come home without a flight.

At home at last with you
and weary from my life,
I'm private once again,
unfettered as your wife.

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from Speak and Spell
Glass Lyre Press
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission