Selected Poems
Cars Without Headlights (2009)
from BluePrintReview Iss. 19
in this dark slipstream, waiting
the rear-view a silence
so thick it has its own language.
placeholders
in silhouette.
a map vacated.
wanderlust. or streetlight echoes
in flashes
of red paint.
this is where you settle.
each hovering bird
a whisper in the evening
as light fades, its shape:
panther skin or
shadows roosting
on hood ornaments
like hungry questions.
Copyright © 2009 Patrick M. Pilarski