Holding Hands For A Corporate Team-Building Exercise With Somebody I’ve Never Spoken To Before
by Shawn Rampaul
we did the human knot
three times
and each reset
saw your fingers
swooning mine
and like two locks
intimately connected
can’t face each other
yet
secure
wedded
esoteric
like two locks
we were useless together
Shawn Rampaul is a 23-year-old law graduate. His prior work can be found at EllipsisZine and BLEACH!, and has work forthcoming in Harpy Hybrid Review, Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry, Eunoia Review, and Gone Lawn.