Pulled over on I-g5. (Poem).Pulled over on I-g5 From out of nowhere, he slowed as he came Alongside, spotlit me, in my face With screaming white. I blindly fit the profile And he could out-cynic Diogenes, searching Every car between Perth Amboy and the river For one dishonest man. Rasp and spit Of gravel, and I rolled down glass, sat waiting For his methodological trudge. Sometimes I return To that scene, walk my mind through the woods Up a stiff hill from the breakdown lane Where in the shallow dark of years since I buried my brother. Saturnine kid, He fidgeted like me, restless in his skin, Had the same worried mother at home Scold him to a patient speed, mindful Though still detained for a Saturday Night special or a brick of hash wedged Behind the fender, there or not there Depending on who's believed. The truth Is I surrendered without a struggle, Not a trace of intolerance in my dumb nod, Letting a flashlight as long as the full moon At the end of a nightstick interrogate both Glove compartment and trunk, more stunned than outraged Like someone conned all those years of homeroom Tis of thee and hand to the chest allegiance. It was happening to me, I was learning What I'd always known even if only On a different road someone was told to step Away from the vehicle and run, and did, Hearing the holster unsnapped. I hid Any resemblance, accepted the citation And moved on, copped out as one must to get by, Got away with doing nothing, unrepentant As only the most wanted or innocent. David Nadal Moolten's first book, "Plums and Ashes ash 1 n. 1. The grayish-white to black powdery residue left when something is burned. 2. Geology Pulverized particulate matter ejected by volcanic eruption. 3. , "won the 1994 Samuel French Samuel French (1821 - 1898) was a U.S. entrepreneur who, together with British actor, playwright and theatrical manager Thomas Hailes Lacy, pioneered in the field of theatrical publishing and the licensing of plays. Poetry Prize. His recent verse appears in The Colorado Review Colorado Review is a major American literary journal based at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. The journal presents the annual Nelligan Award for Fiction. Recent winners include Emily Bloch, Dylan Landis, and Lauren Guza. and River Styx Styx (stĭks), in Greek mythology, river of Hades that the souls of the dead had to cross on their journey from the realm of the living. It was a sacred river, and by its name even the gods took their most solemn oaths. and is forthcoming from POETRY Magazine. He works j3r the American Red Cross American Red Cross: see Red Cross. in Philadelphia Philadelphia, ancient cities Philadelphia, name of several ancient cities. One was in Lydia, W Asia Minor (now W Turkey). At the foot of Mt. Tmolus and near the location of modern Alaşehir, it was founded in the 2d cent. B.C. . |
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