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Daniel Nester: Rodinesque Triptych Plus

May 16, 2011 by PBQ

I.
December in the Delaware Valley
and the boy daydreams
of joyrides, limp crab apples
chucked from car windows.
His legs are trembling!

II.
—He sleeps in a township beyond
commonplace, beyond get-outta-here.
The boy can bend his elbows
into his arms.

III.
And then there’s this one part
when wet thuds on late-model
hoods dent youthful ligaments.
The boy’s chased down by a wrinkled drunk,
whiskey breathclouds over his face.

IIIa.
I forgot to tell you the following―
the dead ringer aspect
of the boy and drunk,
their curvatures, the snow,
his arms bent in the snow.

Filed Under: Contributors 70, Issue 70, Poetry, Poetry 70 Tagged With: Contributors 70, Daniel Nester, Poetry, Poetry 70

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