Steve Gerson's chapbooks include Once Planed Straight; Viral; And the Land Dreams Darkly; The 13th Floor: Step into Anxiety; What Is Isn't; There is a Season; Have Not; Who Am I Today; and Dystopia.

I
thought
we were
converging,
but did we divide?
Our
bed,
rumpled,
rock-strewn roads
of contradiction—
we,
paint
mottled,
dappled doubt
heaving in despair—
our
path(s)
question
completion,
a road diverging.

