Noah Stetzer


u up?


meet me on the far
side of town meet me
at your empty office
meet me where no
one knows me meet
me when no one cares
where I am meet me
in an airport hour
meet me in a book
store night we can meet
with both our cars’ head
lights shining facing
one another we
can leave the engines
on with traffic far
enough away still
close enough to feel
like danger meet me
after what’s expected
but before too
risky to survive
meet me halfway down
from here far enough
to feel like threat
but close enough to
catch the smell of you.

Noah Stetzer

Noah Stetzer is the author of Because I Can See Needing a Knife (Red Bird Chapbooks). His poems have appeared/will appear in Sixth Finch, The Cortland Review, New England Review, Hobart, and other journals. He has been a fellow of the Lambda Literary Retreat and a work-study scholar at the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference. Noah can be found online at www.noahstetzer.com.

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