1.<\/p>\n
I called you from the truck stop. The attendant mumbled something over I was too concerned about the caution<\/span> Why must relief need a warning?<\/span> I only pulled the car over to unclench my hands in the first place. 2.<\/p>\n You once told me I felt pain so deeply you needed You bought green muck boots.<\/span>\t\t\t<\/p>\n You became a carpenter. \t\t<\/p>\n You told me, \u201cyou have to be tough with fruit<\/span> I uprooted everything. <\/p>\n No more peaches.<\/span><\/p>\n _______________<\/span> 3.\t<\/p>\n Change cannot hinge on the accordion of weather.\t<\/p>\n The rain against the rhododendron<\/span> Dead bees tangled in my hair means July is almost over.<\/span> You haul the garbage bags full How did you see this ending?<\/span> We flip the switch. The light goes off. Surely, even the sea forgets its wreckage.<\/span> \t\t<\/p>\n _______________<\/span> 4.<\/p>\n Night flooded and I couldn\u2019t find the bridge The lazy capo of the moon, drunk and forgetting\u2014darkness<\/span> I thought I saw you in the fog, but it was only a stranger<\/span> Ambushes of shadows like evening medications.<\/span> \t<\/p>\n My clumsy hands no longer pointing to the moon, but at the pink ribbon Tell me, where is the bridge\u2014<\/span> <\/p>\n _______________<\/span> 5.<\/p>\n I climbed into the car.<\/p>\n Spread<\/span> Look at how much space I\u2019ll live<\/span> _______________<\/span> 6.<\/p>\n I unbraided possibility without the bruises.<\/span> Sweetheart, I\u2019m ready to confess tomorrow isn\u2019t coming for us.<\/span> I pulled the car over,<\/span> The empty passenger seat is real and it no longer depends on you.<\/p>\n _______________<\/span>
\nI planned to sleep there<\/span>
\nall night.<\/span> \t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n
\nthe loud-speaker about how unattended baggage<\/span>
\nmay be suspect, but I was busy talking to you, so I wasn\u2019t<\/span>
\npaying attention. <\/span>
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\ntape surrounding the entrance.<\/span>
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span>\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span>
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\nto build a bridge over it, wide<\/span>
\nenough for us both to stand on\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n
\ntrees, don\u2019t let them out stay <\/span>
\ntheir welcome.\u201d<\/span>
\n_______________<\/span>\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\ntunnels makes the forest roar and seem impossible<\/span>
\nto leave.<\/span> <\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\nto the side of the road and we continue<\/span>
\nto do terrible things to each other.<\/span>
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\nanymore (was there a bridge).<\/span> <\/p>\n
\ndoesn\u2019t destroy; it only confuses. \t\t<\/p>\n
\nstanding beside a fence.\t<\/span> \t <\/p>\n
\nblood makes<\/span>
\nwhen it mixes with water and circles<\/span>
\nthe drain. <\/span>
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\nIf this is really what I think this is, then I cannot
\nscrew this up.\t<\/span>
\n_______________<\/span>
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\nthe Atlas across the dashboard.<\/span> \t\t<\/p>\n
\nwithout you.<\/span> \t<\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\nmy long hair in the rearview, every exit sign<\/span>
\na vertebra along the highway\u2019s back;<\/span> <\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\nwhispered your name<\/span>
\ninto a shoebox, and abandoned it in the river<\/span>
\nwhere we surrender<\/span>
\nthe things we long for most.<\/span>
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n
\n_______________<\/span><\/p>\n