A Line of Thought...

Lines by Martha Collins

Draw a line. Write a line. There.

Stay in line, hold the line, a glance

between the lines is fine but don’t

turn corners, cross, cut in, go over

or out, between two points of no

return’s a line of flight, between

two points of view’s a line of vision.

But a line of thought is rarely

straight, an open line’s no party

line, however fine you point.

A line of fire communicates, but drop

your weapons and drop your line,

consider the shortest distance from x,

to y, let x be me, let y be you.