The Border Guards Raised Their Eyebrows

lake above, mountain below

Thessalon, Ontario — Photo by Jonathan Potter ⓒ 2024

The border guards raised their eyebrows
at the amount of stuff we were
hauling into Canada
from the land of the insane
to the south. So we had to
get out and make an accounting.

A friendly interrogation
ensued, since the mutual love
between our two lands persists
despite ongoing questions
about obliviousness
and drunken driving of the ship

of state. My love and I answered
their questions satisfactorily
and continued on our way
persisting in our own love
mutually arrived at
years ago and now reaching a

turning point of stability
between north and south, the compass
of mutual attraction
ceasing to spin as madly
now as in the past, but still
pointing us to one another.

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