these past two weeks i escaped death twice
danced in a desert paradise
got on 2 coast-to-coast flights
and lived someone else’s life for one night.

these past two weeks i heard prince sing
slept in a hotel bed fit for a king
slept in a tent, camping
slept in the bed i grew up sleeping in.

these past two weeks i got on a train
to spend one day in
what could be my future
then accepted an invitation from the past to disappear
into the ether
packed and repacked for a place neither
there nor here
then two weeks later
returned home, to get my now in order.