Poem of the Week: "Driving a Dream Car Intoxicated with You" by Catherine Daly
Catherine Daly was valedictorian of her class at St. Teresa of Avila High School in a small blue collar city in the American Midwest. An Illinois Scholar at Trinity College and Merit Fellow at Columbia University, she has worked as a technical architect, officer in a Wall Street investment bank, engineer supporting the space shuttle orbiter, software developer for motion picture studios, and teacher. She lives in Los Angeles, and is also the author of another book of poetry, DaDaDa. You can visit her blog at cadaly.blogspot.com. Locket is available from Tupelo Press.
Driving a Dream Car Intoxicated with You
A slipper for champagne sipping,
not a scuff; a maribou-trimmed slingback for marimbas,
or a mule; a tuxedo slipper
sported by a tenor martinet pinching the cool stem of a gin
martini between thumb and forefinger, dangling his cigarette from his lips;
yogi or djinn ashing on the magic carpet;
pretty Chitty Bang Bang, lovely substitutiary locomotion
above everywhere, velocitation in a vehicle for afar, in a dream car.
He starts to talk, drops off midphrase, vernacular
is spectacular, carried along by passing locutionary archetypes.
I try to yield to a better illusion,
the ground you prefer, actually your body,
but this darned Packard won't pause when I pump the brakes.
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