Perseus in Arkansas
By Diane Glancy
Well, jipes! I floored the Chevy/
fishtailed all over the soft-tarred
road
Old women babbling by the church
shit no one with balls
goes to flea markets
the road festered at Pelsor
curves at sixty-two
overturned once on these roads
still don’t know how I got out.
Copyright Credit: “Perseus in Arkansas” from On Age in a Dreamy by Diane Glancy (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1986). Copyright © Diane Glancy. Reprinted with permission from Milkweed Editions. www.milkweed.org.
Source: One Age in a Dream (Milkweed Editions, 1986)