Come here and let’s test 
that erotic distance dictated by physics– 
how no two things ever really touch– 

except on maps. Huron and Michigan
look a little like a pair of lungs 
connected at Mackinac. A woman 

once threw herself over 
a rocky outcrop to be with her dead 
husband, if you believe in such things. 

Anyway, now it’s very expensive
to get married there. I’d pay good money
to drive my car up and down 

every street on the island. 
You could be the lookout. 
I think you’d fall in love 

with me pretty 
fast.

Published July 13, 2025

Molly Moran is a software engineer and poet based in Madison, Wisconsin. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Eunoia Review, The Closed Eye Open, and elsewhere.

Carroll Dunham (born November 5, 1949) is an American painter. Working since the late 1970s, Dunham's career reached critical renown in the 1980s when he first exhibited with Baskerville + Watson, a decade during which many artists returned to painting. He is known for his conceptual approach to painting and drawing and his interest in exploring the relationship between abstraction and figuration.