"Couple" Bruce Willard poem

                                                                  image ©2013 Basha Burwell

You said I was the gas

and someone needed to be

the brake. We never talked

of steering, choosing

the road. I guess

we always knew

which road we were on.

You said I was the gas

and someone needed to be

the brake. But we broke

so memorably,

broke with a flair

that kept us intact

barely aware of the winding

rush of air through our hair.

We were road-bound, driven,

Between the shoulders, our hearts

Moved by something we knew

not to name.

                                                

                                                     "Couple" from HOLDING GROUND (c) 2013 by Bruce Willard. With permission of Four Way Books. All rights reserved.