If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border by Jeff Mock

If a Plane Crashed Exactly on the U.S.-Canadian Border, in Which Country Would They Bury the Survivors?

by Jeff Mock

—for Margot

published in Sweet Lit, issue 9.2, 2016

After I crawled away from the wreckAnd smolder, I toured the dazed woods—In circles within circles, I’m sure.The descent was still in my stopped heart.I hungered and learned the hard wayWhich berries not to eat.I wintered on brown pine needlesIn a hollow in the roots of a black oakAnd let my bones knit. It feltGo...