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v. 6 reworked a number of phrases, save for the first and last stanzas

As Buck drives us to practice
he looking for gas money
under the red light,
his license flashes into view.

The logic is off for me in this stanza -- he is driving looking for cash under a red light!


Pennsylvania wades across its top,
a photograph straddles the left corner
as of scrawl limps in the center;

at some stage you need to say DRIVE here
we pass the intersection,
before it hits me. The signature's
does not a match
to the six foot owner

hand on the stick shift,
name conjuring a deer
in a maturing wood.

Read aloud,
it does not even turn a head

a very straight line that needs oomph! How about No backward glance--- which leads to fearful or somesuch!!

as it escapes into the crosswalk
through a cracked window

leaving us to ride in silence -
the driver, unchained to the autograph
crammed in his pocket,

the passenger, rubbing his arms
where bonds rattle,
surface, and sink.

I take it this handcuffs? Mind you! we do have a brand of men’s underdaks called Bonds which puts an altogether new spin on the reading,

not much help at all am I ..