Driving
“When night falls / only the mute eyes of roadside deer / keep you alert.”
“When night falls / only the mute eyes of roadside deer / keep you alert.”
By Alli Tervo
“Their whiskers intersect / like neighborly clotheslines / One lifetime / greeting the next”
“allow myself an ounce of temptation, / run finger over ragged cuticle and think of my tongue running / along her nail bed”
“places the raw chunks / in my stained open-sore mouth, / teaches me to acquire a taste for pain.”
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“And we’re dressed to the nines, in our cleanest / boots, the dust scrubbed from our tanks / until they gleam.”
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“Here are gates with welcoming arms, drapes, gardens // that are all swings and slides.”