Where We Live
Will be published approx. on 17. February 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-0-918526-41-0 (ISBN)
Description
Nights
Next door, he climbs under
A jacked-up Chevy with a droplight.
His girl rags off
The silver tools before passing them under.
Tire-scream and glasspack-rumble.
The concerto in my room goes weak.
But when they quit
It's a black quiet.
I lie down and my mind gets up
In its sleep.
At my kitchen table
He leans over a blank page --
Cut hands and cracked nails
Rimmed with slim moons of dirt.
He is mocking
Up a list of my loves:
The click of well-seated valves,
A good rock beat for the drags,
A girl beside me,
The beautiful poor white girl
Who will litter me kids,
Adjust the light, shadows for make-up.
© BOA Editions, Ltd 1982
Next door, he climbs under
A jacked-up Chevy with a droplight.
His girl rags off
The silver tools before passing them under.
Tire-scream and glasspack-rumble.
The concerto in my room goes weak.
But when they quit
It's a black quiet.
I lie down and my mind gets up
In its sleep.
At my kitchen table
He leans over a blank page --
Cut hands and cracked nails
Rimmed with slim moons of dirt.
He is mocking
Up a list of my loves:
The click of well-seated valves,
A good rock beat for the drags,
A girl beside me,
The beautiful poor white girl
Who will litter me kids,
Adjust the light, shadows for make-up.
© BOA Editions, Ltd 1982
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
2495 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-918526-41-0 (9780918526410)
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Founder of Tar River Poetry and editor for 30 years, Peter Makuck taught at East Carolina University from 1976 to 2006. His stories, poems, reviews and essays appear in Poetry, The Nation, Hudson Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Georgia Review. He is author of four volumes of poetry, two short story collections, and co-edited a book of essays.