Traveling from Point A to a Missing Point
A. Molotkov
How quickly a cluster
bomb does its
dark magic. The building
with eyes; ours, as we see
through the new
holes a kitchen, with an unfinished
sandwich covered with blue
mold and half a living
room with peeling
wallpaper we’d been planning
to replace, the other half
where Mom used to
sit subtracted,
reduced to
memory.
A. Molotkov is an immigrant writer. His poetry collections are “The Catalog of Broken Things,” “Application of Shadows,” “Synonyms for Silence” and “Future Symptoms”. His novel “A Slight Curve” and his memoir “A Broken Russia Inside Me” are forthcoming; he co-edits The Inflectionist Review. His collection of ten short stories, “Interventions in Blood,” is part of Hawaii Review Issue 91; his prose is represented by Laura Strachan at Strachan Lit. Please visit him at AMolotkov.com