Taylor Fedorchak is a Maryland native. In Spring 2016, she received her BA in English from Salisbury University. Her work appears in decomP, Red Earth Review, OVS Magazine, Arkana, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and elsewhere.
Taylor Fedorchak
Steering
I rode in the front seat
of the cop car after
the impact. Stood in the sun,
burning before I made it
to the beach. Someone was
called to collect his census
files, my car. Both cars:
driveable. No witness
to sight, only sound. I
made up for it with buckets
of margarita mix, whole
bottles of tequila. My friends
let me drive alone, let me walk
the boardwalk alone. I got
back at sunrise, found you
drunk on the lawn, trying
to light magnolia
leaves on fire, saying
they just won't burn.
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