WORD is ART Stage

How to Reach Someone Who Does Not Have a Cell Phone

By Joanna Schroeder, 2012 Competition Winner

If you want us to go somewhere,
throw rocks at my window.
Shout up from downstairs
loud enough to wake the neighbors
on a summer night.

If we need to catch up,
let's do it in skywriting,
the loop and dip of time
trailing under the clouds.

Write down your best story
and tie it to the ankle
of a carrier pigeon.
Loose it to the wind.

I will meet you at the corner
of undivided and attention.
In case of emergency
send up a smoke signal.

If you want to say hello,
bake a pie and set it on the window,
tap me on the shoulder,
rub a penny down the nape of my neck.

Call me where I live.