Cars
if we could talk for hours
I’d tell you of planned nights
nights that I have mapped and charted
that we might journey through and
visit every part of
no traffic on the roads
just us
exploring slick streams
that keep replenishing at the
toss of a pebble
gently flown to the waters
if we could touch for hours
you’d know of planned nights
riding in warm cars
the motor idling at the
dips of rivers
idling at quiet, swaying
forest trees
trees bending silence in our ears
you, a canopy over me
as we dull the motor
and shift into night
Written By: Gloria Keeley
About the Author: I’m a graduate of San Francisco State University with a BA and MA in Creative Writing. My work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Slipstream, FORUM and other journals. I graduated from CCSF and I taught at CCSF for 34 years and was the editor of FORUM in 1969.
Visual Art “En El Trafico” By: Erick Orihuela
About the Artist: Erick Orihuela is an Ethnic Studies and Film as Literature high school teacher. He grew up in the Mission District after moving from Mexico City. For him, teaching is a means of showing people his favorite philosophers: Frantz Fanon, Silvia Federici, San Te of the Shaolin Temple, and MF Doom. Takes pictures to better balance work and ludic activities.
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