Long Road To
Tijuana How
long has he been at the refinery
outside Tula asleep in his hammock slung across axles
beneath extra-long trailer loaded high with baled
corn-husks dreaming of his young wife secure in her love & how close his
death? How much does he have
left to do? Tula,
Mexico 14
July 1991 [Published in Grasslands. © 1994 by Jim
Cohn.] |