artwork: ralph murre
DREAMING
OF THE RED 1964 FORD MUSTANG
CONVERTIBLE
DEALER PROMO MODEL GIVEN
TO ME ON
MY 16th BIRTHDAY BY MY MOTHER
by CX
Dillhunt
How
morning can be transalpine
How the
vestiges of summer are falling
How the window can be empty and still
How the
curtain isn't moving
How the bed curtails movement
How fear
can be found
How finding is fearful
How a teaspoon of salt falls
How fall
is around the corner
How morning rounds out the room
How the
room transforms the sleeper
How the transvestite can still be
sleeping
How this poem turns the corner into
fall
Now
drives on through the morning window.
~ first published in Wisconsin People & Ideas
