ROAD TO BYBLOS by Madeleine Cravens

by Madeleine Cravens / Tuesday, 16 August 2022 / Published in Issue 24

Mechanized time was an invention
created to sustain
entire empires.

And love, I knew,
could be expressed
through an idiom about graves.

We rode past the beachside
nightclub and three
cement factories.

I wasn’t in love.
I never knew what time it was.

Smoke unfurled from the airbase.
A pregnant dog howled
from under a fig tree.

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About Madeleine Cravens

Madeleine Cravens is a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She received her MFA from Columbia University, where she was a recipient of the Max Ritvo Poetry Fellowship. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in American Chordata, the Adroit Journal, the Kenyon Review, and Third Coast, among others.