Holding Hands For A Corporate Team-Building Exercise With Someone I’ve Never Spoken To Before

by Shawn Rampaul

Originally printed in Stone of Madness Press


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. He has work published in Ellipsis Zine, Gone Lawn, and Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry, among other journals.