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Poppyseeds in Bucharest 
Sara Adams


The Romanian mac
has almost replaced my own, native-tongue word
for poppy seed
 
It’s efficient, stealthy, like
Bucharest commuters who have taken great care
to diminish visual evidence of any kind of relaxation or enjoyment
which may have occurred the previous night
 
In regards to relaxation and enjoyment,
the train station is both 
pre- and post-,
a tunnel missing the good parts
 
The only form of lightness, of peace,
is pretzels
(a pretzel with mac, thirty cents at the entrance and
carried forth through the tunnels like a torch)
 
Or, ten pretzels.
For three dollars, in Bucharest,
you could have a commuter train pretzel 
hanging from each of your fingers, or maybe even
spinning, mac flying all over your fellow commuters
 
If you were good enough,
If you could actually spin all ten pretzels at the same time,
you probably wouldn’t have to get on the train at all 
Picture
Trees Attempt at Obsfucation, painting by W. Jack Savage

Sara Adams is a Montessori teacher in Portland, Oregon. She has work in lit mags such as DIAGRAM (forthcoming), tNY Press's Electronic Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature, and Shampoo Poetry. Her first micro-chapbook, Poems for Ivan, is forthcoming from Porkbelly Press. More info and links at www.kartoshkaaaaa.com.

W. Jack Savage is a retired broadcaster and educator. He is the author of seven books including Imagination: The Art of W. Jack Savage (wjacksavage.com).  To date, more than fifty of Jack’s short stories and over six-hundred of his paintings and drawings have been published worldwide. Jack and his wife Kathy live in Monrovia, California.
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