Christine Surka
Layover, Zurich
Sharper than fog, unusual
Romance
Is a chocolate shop
On the edge of an airport
Where the watches and gongs
Break sleep.
They remind us how time disconnects,
Snaps off, falls down
Into deeper escalators,
Clattering like bones
In the silver doorways.
Bio
Christine Surka writes both verse and prose poetry. She has been previously published in Right Hand Pointing, BlazeVOX, elimae, The Prose-Poem Project, Sugar Mule Magazine, Void Magazine, and the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly. Christine works in biology research, is originally from Massachusetts, and now lives with her husband in Southern California.