At a morning truck stop
the waitress calls out orders
over labouring engines,
bursts of retarder brakes,
exhaust,
Will that be to stay or to go?
Roughnecks and truckers
on their way to the north
climb down from diesel bodies,
pull off caps, wipe their heads,
as heat goes picking its way
across the parking lot
looking for leftovers—
A swollen bag of garbage
the busboy heaves into the […]
Filed under: Cassy Welburn, Home & Away by akublik Date 31 October, 2009
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frost on the potato
in the upturned garden
light between haystacks
a hole in heaven
the rosy hardness of crabapples
as they drop ping onto the gravel
tracks of cattle leading down to a
drinking hole,
a green stone in the mud.
the sound of my father’s truck
returning from his night job as
morning stars begin to sing
the music of milking in the stable
by the […]
Filed under: Cassy Welburn, Home & Away by akublik Date 31 October, 2009
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