Fold Lines

by Amy Ballard

Photo by Hannah Nelson: https://www.pexels.com/photo/girl-holding-map-inside-vehicle-1037890/

Handing you the map

I never think

you’ll fold it up

and hand it back to me.

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“I don’t need it,”

you say.

While you anticipate your exit,

I unfold the self

you folded wrong,

press it flat,

try to find

the original fold lines.