Katherine Northrop: The Field the Drive-In Was in

                                                                                                                                                     David Branch photo

The Field the Drive-in Was In 

—what are we here? The hive mind

answers hive-ily, their suggestions

make 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 power

quick and sickly, cut-throat.

But we happened,

we happened, drawing each other out,

reading newspapers, novels until the marina

swooped back into view.

Across the water, shimmering:

powerful, calming, and regular as credits—

                                                         -Katherine Northrop     

                                                                        First published in Agni 80