Jump Cabling by Linda Pastan

Jump Cabling

by Linda Pastan

(published in Drive, They Said, an anthology edited by Kurt Brown, published in 1994 by Milkweed Editions)

When our cars touched,

When you lifted the hood of mine

To see the intimate workings underneath,

When we were bound together

By a pulse of pure energy,

When my car like the princess

In the tale woke with a start,

I thought why not ride the rest of the way together?

Oh, the layers upon layers of this perfect poem!

There are just 8 l...