SKUNK HOUR


Skunk Hour
One dark night,
my Tudor Ford climbed the hill’s skull;
I watched for love-cars. Lights turned down,   
they lay together, hull to hull,
where the graveyard shelves on the town. . . .
My mind’s not right.

A car radio bleats,
“Love, O careless Love. . . .” I hear
my ill-spirit sob in each blood cell,
as if my hand were at its throat. . . .
I myself am hell;
nobody’s here—