In the Home of the Famous Dead by Jo McDougall

Author:Jo McDougall [McDougall, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781610755603
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

I Drive into a Town for the First Time

Wind wraps around a town

wrapped around a courthouse square.

The town’s only bank

sits beside the town’s only tree.

The customers of the East Side Café look up,

look up again

as I walk in and take a seat.

The faces are vaguely familiar,

the old names swimming a slow crawl

to meet them.

A man touches his cap and comes toward me—

Fred Simpson, how long has it been—

his smile meant for another table.

How Life Sometimes Is like Kansas

Think of yourself in a car

meeting an eighteen-wheeler

on a gray highway

under the bluest sky in America.

The ordinary clouds have all found their places.

You and the truck meet and pass

without a sound.

Think of fingers slammed in a car door,

of that moment

before the body is given notice.

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