Radio
By CM Burroughs
I needed something beyond or not
Myself that could get me there.
I tried—
To imagine the distance or how
To breach but I couldn’t
Save for a machine
That worked upon something
I couldn’t see. May call it mystical. My
Turning on and tuning to
Otherwhere’s air. Fictive gap
Between places what had names.
It wasn’t magic, no, part mechanical
Part me; worked mindfully out what I needed
Then need met me there.
The radio was just
A way to figure the figureless.
Way out of
No way, you know? How I could prove
I was doing it if none could conceive.
Source: Poetry (March 2026)


