Maybe someday we’ll be
able to have a conversation
that doesn’t dive immediately

into the depths of our collective
trauma; but not today. And
yet, I couldn’t ask for a better

batch of badgers to share
a festering wound with. I’d
walk over a bed of rusty

nails and fall down a hundred
flights of stairs if it would make
you all laugh the way we did

when we were throwing
snowballs at moving cars or
watching Seventh Heaven.

We may not be anything more
than a swath of silly pixels,
but I feel like, if I could just  

reach out and hug you now,
then we could maybe have a
chance at being whole, again.

Bob Raymonda is the Founding Editor of Breadcrumbs Magazine. In 2018 he co-founded the podcast production company Rogue Dialogue, which released its first show, the science-fiction audio drama Windfall, in February of 2019. His work has been featured in Luna Luna Magazine, OCCULUM, Gravel, Peach Magazine, and Yes Poetry, among others. Learn more at www.bobraymonda.co.