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Last Flight Out

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The plane lifts—
beneath us, the country shrinks to shapes
that don’t know our names,
and I count the ways
this could be the last time:
my lungs,
or her skin
and our marriage,
the way customs might look at both
like a problem they’ve been told to solve;
home is behind us,
and might already be gone
by the time we try to return.

Last Update: May 17, 2025

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Amanda Růžičková 53 Articles

Poet in Prague, Midwest-born, fluent in reinvention. Living with stage IV lung cancer and too many unread books. Writing with love and uncertainty—chasing meaning and the everyday beauty that survives

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