Wristbands Required
Dom Witten
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Doors open at 19:07. Only bring items that fit
in your designated pouch. If you brought a buddy,
do not get separated. No one will help you find them.
All lines lead to the other side. Be advised of
your breathing: try the one-minute exercises
marked with concentric flowers.
If you forgot your instructions,
find your buddy or make a new one.
New Buddy Request forms are downstairs.
At the gate, present your traveler ID card.
You will not be allowed to cross without it. Authorized
personnel will search your belongings for sentimentality.
You will not need it on the other side. Any travelers
found with contraband will be taken. Accomplices
will be erased. Disrupters. Broken. Breathe.
Or Don’t. Remember. The flowers.
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Dom Witten is a Black poet raised in Detroit who serves as the Co-Executive Director & Program Facilitator of the Poetics Lab, which hosts monthly programming in Detroit, Hamtramck and Alpena, MI. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UNC Greensboro. Dom’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature & Arts, Radar Poetry, Verse Daily, Greensboro Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Lindenwood Review, Porkbelly Press, and others. She is the winner of the 2022 Amon Liner Poetry Award and the 2022 Academy of American Poets Prize at UNCG.
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