
Celi Glastris



I was on the Tufts/SMFA shuttle
we were approaching that track and field stadium by Alewife Brook
I think my knee was still broken
And I felt that emptiness that I haven’t been able to qualify
That time I tried to draw it
to locate it
Mouth slightly open
letting in some
but not much
oxygen
which always leads to confusion/forgetting
of what led me to this point in the first place
It’s familiar but not typically noticed
What I sought after
I couldn’t find it on that bus ride but
I still have that page
though I can’t find it right now
And many other blank templates
Because I’ve tried many other times before
To locate that feeling of loss
before it swallows me into that Place
wherever it is
A pen is in my hand
A pen is in my hand

I sketched out the shape of a body