By Moriah Hampton
PROMPT—Ask Me.
I want to lead
you there
find you there
follow you there
someplace
where I
feel safe
and you
feel safe
where I
can live fully
and you
can live fully
someplace
for us and for people
who want to
be with us.
I want to meet you at the point
where two circles intersect
and the world
outside falls away
and we are left standing
on an empty stage
and as we turn
the stage falls away
and we are left standing
in the dirt
before any territory
was lost or won
looking at
one another
ready to speak
each other’s name.
Moriah Hampton received her PhD in Modernist Literature from SUNY-Buffalo. Her fiction, poetry, and photography have appeared in Wordgathering, Entropy Magazine, Rune Literary Collection, The Sonder Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches in the Writing and Critical Inquiry Program at SUNY-Albany.