'55 Buick Back Seat Boy

'55 Buick Back Seat Boy


In the darkness of the night
light and shadow play
on the back of the front seat of the car
As we drive somewhere -
to some aunt-and-uncle dinner
or
back from some drive-down-to-the-coast
day trip -
I lay on the back seat
of our '55 medium green and white
two door Buick Special
and watch the sagging
'phone and electric wires shadow
play up and down,
and the light and dark
like a window shade opening and closing
as we travel between the telephone poles.
Oh, joyous memories, I am yours.


- David Komisar, 3/10/98

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This poem appears in Vol. 1 #2 (Spring/Summer 1998) of Men's Voices journal.