{"id":14362,"date":"2018-03-26T17:06:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T22:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=14362"},"modified":"2018-03-27T10:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:36:22","slug":"aubade-with-omissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14362","title":{"rendered":"Aubade, with Omissions"},"content":{"rendered":"

______<\/span>with a line by Larry Levis<\/em><\/p>\n

We\u2019re sitting on the station platform
\nin our grandparents’ jackets\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0pretending<\/p>\n

to be glamorous\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Our expressions stolen
\nfrom old movie posters\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Gene Kelly<\/p>\n

Lauren Bacall\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Behind you
\nThe People Mover\u2019s <\/em>single dumb loop<\/p>\n

links one casino to the next\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Together
\nwe ride the thirteen stops\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 one track\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 to watch<\/p>\n

the same arrivals become departures\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The wreckery
\nof road work\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Crack-backed bannisters<\/p>\n

The boxcar schizophrenic gumming his knuckles
\nTouch me\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I dare you\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Touch me\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

And though I know his eyes
\nrefract a ghost-mopped yard<\/p>\n

far away\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 his mother maybe
\nI shrug my collar close\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 afraid<\/p>\n

of the nowhere he\u2019s found and laid claim to
\nThis isn\u2019t the whole story\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Hours ago<\/p>\n

in Orlando\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Florida\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 a man walked inside a night-
\nclub with a semi-automatic rifle in his grip and<\/p>\n

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I imagine\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 here\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the dead
\nas weary passengers out too late\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 past curfew<\/p>\n

shuffling on board with each stop\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and afraid
\nof returning home to worried parents\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 partners<\/p>\n

How they had their own grandparents
\nwith ringed hands\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 palsy-rattled<\/p>\n

and wore their own tweed-button jackets\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and groped
\nbuckles under cover of music\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and folded<\/p>\n

into one another\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 like flags\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 vaguely
\nceremonial\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and danced\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 and<\/p>\n

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There are certain moments when paired together
\nthat gain a kind of lucidity\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0What does it mean\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

American\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em>There is something in our solitude
\nthat frightens me\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Isn\u2019t this<\/p>\n

how it happens\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 One silhouette in the scenery
\nsuddenly\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 a part of it\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The doors opening<\/em> and<\/p>\n

the doors opening<\/em> and\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0the doors
\nopening <\/em>and\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 the platform calls<\/p>\n

darker now
\n_____________<\/span>we\u2019ve arrived<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Perry Janes<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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