driving

March

By Jesse Nathan

Spring/Summer 2023

There’s a moment—barely—when you see both
ocean and bay from the 280 as it mills north
near Millbrae, the waters flash what they know
of daylight, and you register being a sort of gliding porch
before dunking back under cypress

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If Someone Was Kind Enough

By Jill Bialosky

Summer 2020

If someone was kind enough to take us driving out to the long roads
that veered away from cornfields to the farms, pig roasts & parties

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The Realm of Possibility

By John Wray, Illustrations by Michael Byers

Summer 2020

“I have to do the wee,” announced the child.

“You have to make a wee,” her mother said. “And I asked you before we got in the car, remember? It’s too late for that now. You can go at the gym.”

“I have to do the wee,” the child repeated.

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Drawing Water

By David Tomas Martinez

Spring 2018

Picture if you will Tony Hoagland
and me, he in his Donkey Gospel
hat and me wearing my Hustle ring,
in his car patched with silver duct
tape and sagging passenger mirrors
discussing vehicles as metaphors

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