Tuesday, August 23, 2005

GREASED

by Laura Madeline Wiseman


I stopped driving the day
man was twice officiated
accidentally. I had given
up on gas, the twitch of
engine, lightheadedness
with a cheap green bike
a greased chain I voted
against the desert glare


Laura Madeline Wiseman is an award winning writer teaching at the University of Arizona. Her works have appeared in 13th Moon, The Comstock Review, Fiction International, Poetry Motel, Driftwood, apostrophe, Moondance, Familiar, Spire Magazine, Colere, Clare, Flyway Literature Review, Nebula, and other publications. She is the Literary Editor for IntheFray and a regular contributor to Empowerment4Women.