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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Friday, January 9, 2015

Katherine Northrop. Community Pool / Love Poem


Community Pool / Love Poem

                                                (the whirlpool)
  
It was gritty, where he was sitting
They needed to clean it
                   .
Then we three there
had stopped talking.  Where I’m from
advertisements are disappearing
into old barns.  A hay field

junky with the sound of red-wings.  We show up
most days, we bubbling strangers.  An older woman
lowers herself in.  Oh, she says, that’s hot!
What’s your tattoo a tattoo of?  To show him her shoulder,

she turns around.  It’s a picket fence,
a yellow rose threading through.  The point is, my Love!
still you appear to me, like a roadside stand.

                                                             -Katherine Northop. The poem appeared first in AGNI 80. By        permission here.





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