wanting to leave the country:
maybe we’ll spill out into Split,
Croatia near the coast.
let us toast to life as
ex-pats. we shall be the foreigners,
untrustworthy and strange,
on an unfamiliar shore.
what’s more, it benefits our health.
food, I hear, is more whole, comes
from closer. you burn less
energy. ‘people move differently
abroad,’ she said. ‘many know more
loss than you. war is a memory
not a text. they may see peace
broken and formed and broken
instead of merely reading about
in a brand new book.’