The Virginia Quarterly Review, April 1st, 2004
I am not old but old enough to believe
I know what Jimmy Stevens wants
when he invites my sister
into his Model-?. And because
I believe I know where he is going
I follow the car afoot, breathing
dust and exhaust until both
have left me
so far behind I must rely on what
I believe I know to get me
to where I believe they
are going. But I am
wrong. They aren't here,
meaning that wherever they are
I cannot find them, meaning
that whatever they might be doing
I cannot know, cannot put my small,
helpless body between them.
For a long time I sit in the weeds
at the side of the roa...
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