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Fall 2014   Vol. 31 #1
Fall 2014   Vol. 31 #1

Poems/Not Poems

Front Page, New York Times

By Anne Damrosch

 
 

 

It isn’t meant to be beautiful,

this image of a red car

sinking into the rising

New Jersey flood water

 

but the water

is blue and glassy

and the red car,

so silent.

 

I am sorry

if this is your car,

or the car of your friend,

or if it reminds you of the car you drove

during your second year of college,

named after a girl,

Jenny or Stella.

 

You could say

the car in the newspaper

is dying.

It will never again thrum and roar

down the entrance ramp to the New Jersey Turnpike

nor fight for a parking space

at the Vince Lombardi rest stop.

 

It is simply

a red island

in a small lake,

 

resplendent,

grand,

blue water rising and spreading around it

like a gown.

 

∞

 

From the Fall 2014 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 31, No. 1)

© 2014 Anne Damrosch

Author

Anne Damrosch has published poems in various magazines, including, most recently, Nimrod and New Millennium Writings. Her chapbook, Entering the Story, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012. She is a retired maternal child health nurse and lives in Burlington, Vermont. She is working on her first novel.

Author

Anne Damrosch has published poems in various magazines, including, most recently, Nimrod and New Millennium Writings. Her chapbook, Entering the Story, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012. She is a retired maternal child health nurse and lives in Burlington, Vermont. She is working on her first novel.

 
 
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