Divination by Laura Voivodeship

Laura Voivodeship was born in the UK and currently teaches English in the Middle East.


Divination

I torment our maps
with these ballistic
pendulums. I uncover

something new
with every undulation.
With a haste

we can’t be sure of,
we are running away
from our reflections. We

strain our destinations.
All the exits
will be swept away

by a surge of safer choices.
On this map, beginnings
and endings converge

in disappearing topographies.
It is strange
to spit up a home.