radiopoem #3
when the signal begins to falter letting in a burst of some oily evangelist or some screeching singer do you ever pull your car onto the shoulder in order to hear the end of dvorák’s serenade in e major or the response to a trenchant question from fresh air do you ever reverse slowly to get back in range tricky on the superhighway do you ever even turn around when it’s possible go back to where the signal’s clear pull into some farm track and just sit there do you do you
© Jacqueline Jackson 2006
This article appears in Apr 27 – May 3, 2006.
