Directions

As you leave the L'Enfant Plaza station,
you will pass under an astronaut wall hanging,
slightly different with each exit.

You want the one with the open mask,
and where you might think there would be a man's face,
there is a dog peaking out of the helmet.

Yes, a dog.
Well, he doesn't look uncomfortable,
but it is a human spacesuit
and normally, dogs don't like being suspended.
I imagine the dog is floating in space
as if he were on hind legs,
occasionally kicking downward for momentum
or wagging his tail in the joy of letting go.

Anyway, pass that,
ride two escalators
and turn left at the woman in a yellow smock
handing out free newspapers.

Don't worry.
She'll be there.