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issue 2: ROAD TRIP

drive

ERIN CISNEY
I’ve perfected the art    of the night drive

the shoegaze blue dream haze
of it    the thrum of easy momentum

oh    if you could have seen me
back when I had nothing to lose

all teeth and grit     but no car or cash
to escape the dull daily melancholy

words will buy you nothing    broke
down, dead on the side of the road

so I grew into martyrdom   a cache
of love notes and obituaries in the attic

a girl in a black dress      left struck
in my rear view, pedestrian class

karmic disaster         baby,
I’ve been putting miles between us

you’ve had a long hard go of it
now let yourself sleep, release

I’m going to meet the sea
I’m going to dream of all that highway

and we will never meet again

Erin Cisney is a poet from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Her work has appeared in such places as Dust Poetry Magazine, déraciné, and Ghost Heart Literary Journal, among others.  Her debut poetry collection, Anatomy Museum, is available from Unsolicited Press. Twitter: @erin_cisney.
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