Thursday, November 28, 2019

in the hammersmith garage (1986)


winter prys its icy fingers
into the crack of the huge sliding door,
pointed colors gust in the car exhaust.

greasy joe slides under a car
&wrenches at pipes, straining
not unlike a man milking a cow
in the frost of four a.m. iowa

he loosens a nut that drains the oil
and the cow wobbles
weakheaded. he puts a feedsack over the hood

and gives the back fender a
fleshy, familiar slap




1986 Lawrence Ks

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