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by Mark Bonica

I Google you to see if you are still there
after seven years.
Is there eternal life among the electrons?
It seems there are fewer hits now,
but I could be wrong.

There are more oddities intermixed:
a list of runners from a race -
two of whom, when combined together,
share your first and last name.
Apparently you are also a camera brand,
and you must have a distant relation
who runs a knitting group in Iowa.

These all appear
like random thoughts
that intrude when I try to hold your face,
your voice
in my mind.

I bring up Mapquest now,
click for directions.
In "Starting Location"
I type "Wishing You Were Here"
and in ending location,
I enter, "Heaven."
I select "Get Directions"
and wait.