New fiction, poetry, and essay from literary luminaries such as Daniel Browning, Bill Gammage, Jen Craig, Rico Craig, Luoyang Chen, Jane Downing, and Jo Langdon. Featuring cover art from Liss Fenwick's haunting Humpty Doom series.
OVERLAND 192 spring 2008 ISBN 978-0-9775171-9-0 published 31 August 2008
Foggy Windows
You can’t preserve love behind foggy windows believe me when your back is finally turned she steps out shakes herself down does her lipstick and walks away perhaps with an insouciant swing to the hips that would hurt if you insisted on looking back if you regretted not shackling her in your car forever but you don’t want to spend the rest of your life blubbering in torn pieces like Orpheus or tasting a toxic dollop of Lot’s Wife on congealing cold eggs so you don’t fight it you don’t fight love’s right to wind down your precious foggy windows.
© Dorothy Porter Overland 192 – spring 2008, p. 77
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