Wayfinding

A poem

Midjourney art generated by the author

There is something about an atlas late at night,
spread across the table, water rings
left by liquor glasses. A single finger
can map a road trip across the Andes,

more vast than Saudi Arabia, six times
the size of Iraq. Listen to the sound of runways
and runoff, places without a direct plane flight.
What is the size of…