There's a thrill and you fall into it
          again as you forget  
                     Rubberneck contagion
           Anxieties in the upper regions
                though, no gut disturbance
                            a strange observation process

                         -without that hinderance
           Hopped up, the witness
                Gaze upon a brewing formation
             Linger tensions
           Fears shoot up from the deep
          Like ghosts and demons
            Around every corner and
          shadowed path
           In yr house, when you were young
       Still perhaps..

     you let it bite and a car pulls up
            Single pointed aggression
      And we proceed
           Such a wonder
                         Not really
               but the feelings
        procession of instincts
          habitual
     And we choose fractions
        Be important because we believe
       what the F* does that even mean?
       Can you go through the process
      To figure the dimensions of a form..

        Listen for a moment;
         He says he's drunk
      but really asking to be loved
    and miraculously it worked
       off he walked to oblivion
     if only we had the guts to follow

   ..I may have gone deeper
   Than I can dig, up a figure anyway
  But it's never a settled point
    So there's always room to play around

The grimy auto tech
bursts through the door
a quarter to six
straight to the fridge
opening the white door
pulling the yellow jug
out with force
the creamy liquid
clears grime from
the corner of his lips

My home is made of grit and dirt

The taps run sweat,

the windows are shattered,

their glass clinging to frames

like broken teeth to gums in the mouth of a boxer.

My town is a fighter,

built of scrap metal and machines.

The streets are steel

and the river nuts and bolts,

its gears turn through rust

and parts corrode away.

Time turns it green, orange,

black with oil and grime,

but my city is a fighter,

made of grit and dirt,

and it lives.

My Dad has tough hands
Hard working and honest
Blue collar hands
He has scars
On the backs of his thumbs
And rips through his palms
He has rugged hands
Loving hands
Warm and worn
Heavy hands
Stories between the base of his fingers
The hands of a simple man
Who sees no point in pessimism
He has real-man hands
That will carry any weight
He could lift cars if he wanted to
I know it
He has hands with a background
Never truly scrubbed clean
Dirt and oil
Fossilized beneath his fingernails
My father has kind hands
The kind of hands
I hope my husband has