Rushing/Going/Leaning – Chloe Sproule

December 18, 2025

Trying on clothes at the store
Arriving to her picnic, late but flushed—welcome or not.

Or women’s poetry; travelogues of the elderly; the rare climax
Cloying and wishful and childhood-in-hand.

Realizing that junctions are creaky for a reason
Summoning the textbook you imagine exists
Dusting off the monument
As the Pope touches down.