Jane Edna Mohler
Jane Edna Mohler is the 2020 Bucks County Poet Laureate (Pennsylvania). Her latest publications include Gargoyle, Gyroscope, New Verse News, River Heron Review, and One Art. Her collection Broken Umbrellas was published in 2019 by Kelsay. She is Poetry Editor of the Schuylkill Valley Journal. http://www.janeednamohler.com
At the Foot of the Bay Bridge
Nothing’s slicker
than a midnight burger blasted
down in my father’s Ford.
than a midnight burger blasted
down in my father’s Ford.
All-night drive-in, lurid
lights hum over the hot macadam
salted with skittering rats.
Wrappers rattle. Whoosh
of invisible cars, their black speed stirs
a wind sopping
like a stale sponge.
Night smeared with the smoke
of seared meat.
We think our own
thoughts wrapped in darkness
thick as bay water.
Eight-years old, I fell
for the lure of night rides, inherited
that craving for neon-splashed
hours when Fryolators
hoist a greasy tower that billows
in the faces of wide-eyed stars.
