Tinted windows
race down the road
like Saul into Paul,
it’s momentary bliss
with the changing of the leaves,
that bedroom friend that curls
into you without a name,
cheap tobacco on her breath
and those promises
no one keeps.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author who lives in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work has been published both in print and online in such places as: The New York Quarterly, Red Fez, Evergreen Review, International Times, Himalaya Diary, Huffington Post, Blue Collar Review, GloMag, and The Oklahoma Review. He enjoys listening to the blues and cruising down the TransCanada in his big blacked out truck.
Picture Chariklia Zarris
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