Residues
The bed, the sheets, the smell:
the fleeting ship,
the longing to dock at a port,
leaving rainbows in the waters,
oil, the drive,
the poison.
The shoes, the marks, the odor:
the transient traveler,
the itch to take hold of a map,
leaving empty rolls of tissue,
tickets, the way,
the risk.
I'll clean the sheets.
But the cyanide on Hitler.
I'll scrub the marks.
But the fire on the black box.
If today ever happened.