Katherine Northrop: The Field the Drive-In Was in

                                                                                                                                                     David Branch photoThe Field the Drive-in Was In 

—what are we here? The hive mindanswers hive-ily, their suggestionsmake for us, make for us: brzoom, as high-school boys, cunt-struck.
“Oh we were young, oh we banged around the world,holding our arms out, hoping for what?”
All the while, something, my love, bore down on the boat, a powerquick and sickly, cut-throat. But we happened,
we happened, drawing each other out,reading newspapers, novels until the marinaswooped back into view.
Across the water, shimmering:powerful, calming, and regular as credits—
                                                         -Katherine Northrop                                                                             First published in Agni 80