STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
AARON BRAME
of this twenty-year-old truck is kicked
back like it ain’t shit that he’s being towed
on a chain somehow and banging down
Walnut Grove about 40 miles an hour.
I stare at him from the red light. Sir,
can you show me, please, to be natural
as you are, thrown out of gear, your right foot hovering
over the brake, with no cold AC, with no AM gold
from the speakers, no one to hear
you scream mayday if your pal takes the turn
too fast and you swing off toward rush hour.
I have lost something, see, am outnumbered by secrets,
I have let the fire rush to my head. Used to be I could
find Cassiopeia in November. Now I just stare
into the dark. Sir, I can learn from your racket—
me, riding shotgun, hanging on.
Aaron Brame is the former senior poetry editor at the Pinch Journal. His poetry and prose appears in Lumina, Hartskill Review, Kindred, and Tupelo Quarterly, among other places. He teaches eighth-grade English in Memphis, Tennessee.
