poetry

poems I wrote and sometimes love—plus others I do love…<(return home)

Cars

This ’63 Dodge Dart is the same model and color as my first car. Click to enlarge.

’63 powder-blue Dodge Dart
slant-six engine, push-button transmission
that my father gave me in 1970.

Volvo 122s Wagon I bought with a hundred dollars cash
and twenty-five dollars in food stamps.

Coyote. Carnation, WA. Click for larger image.

Long before I see you
you know I am here
have taken in my scent
of shampoo, of sweat,
of what I last ate

You have heard the crunch
of my footsteps,
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