Cardboard Figures in a Landscape

by Elaine Equi

A truck goes by.

It sounds like a truck

full of boxes.
Heavy things

getting jostled,
sliding around

on top of each other.
Sex between boxes.

With boxes
one doesn't know

what one is getting into.
A thud. A thump.

A loud horn
signals the climax,

satisfying for all.

From: 
Sentences and Rain





Last updated February 23, 2023