Without taking
his eyes off the girl
in the handmade dress
he rolls Drum tobacco
into a tight cigarette
and exhales
just as the final
school bell rings
leans against
the hood of a
dolphin blue
Ford Galaxie,
body angled
45 degrees
like a rifle
propped
against
a tree,
smoke encircles
his slick-backed
hair then eases
into autumn air
and me slumped
in the passenger
seat watching him
watching her glide
across the lot
into a future
aside
from anything
we can imagine,
a string of
midnights
blindingly lit
by the Galaxie’s
vertically stacked
dual headlights,
my body
vibrating
involuntarily
along with the thrum
of the most important
V8 engine in the world.
Oct 28, 2016
Oct 28, 2016 at 3:21 PM UTC
Without taking
his eyes off the girl
in the handmade dress
he rolls Drum tobacco
into a tight cigarette
and exhales
just as the final
school bell rings
leans against
the hood of a
dolphin blue
Ford Galaxie,
body angled
45 degrees
like a rifle
propped
against
a tree,
smoke encircles
his slick-backed
hair then eases
into autumn air
and me slumped
in the passenger
seat watching him
watching her glide
across the lot
into a future
aside
from anything
we can imagine,
a string of
midnights
blindingly lit
by the Galaxie’s
vertically stacked
dual headlights,
my body
vibrating
involuntarily
along with the thrum
of the most important
V8 engine in the world.
