You mound of splay: Roadkill
Finally, key turned, engaged brake
I step out, look back
inspect the red tread trail from me to you
I follow the red line back, slip
Right myself, definition scuffed
You wait, unsettling
you stare at me, eye poppingly spent I
peck at the insides, around
Gristle-wrestling foot-slide
You hide underfoot
lubricated turn, I grind your parts
into ground-pebble crevices, cracks
your retreating self, a part
left behind, I drive
away. You: Finally driven
down.
- Simon Huggins, 28th March 2003