The large container with people in it.
Elsewhere, women in mirrors behind men in a group.
Leaning, in the eyes, already dead.
Every single one of them, watching, like us.
Waiting.
Bruce MacDonald is a Mental Health Worker by trade. His poetry has appeared in/on lichen, sleepingfish, elimae, Another Toronto Quarterly. The poem is from an unpublished work of his called, There is Something You Should Know. He works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and tries to keep the distinction between the real and not-so real alive.