"Drive Around" by Zach Thomas

Drive Around

Lines twice and the jelly shadow.
Twiddling thumbs at the bar.
The call—no bleedout.
The double shot.

Pulling over in the spindly trees,
bag sopping, stretched, and yellow.
Her face returning and a cat-quiet chin wipe
before drop me off at the grocery store.

Zach thomas

Zach Thomas is a writer from Virginia. Often set in Appalachia, his poetry focuses on loss, family identity, trauma, regret, and other themes he realizes are hardly uplifting. His work appears in Rue Scribe, Routledge’s Rock Music Studies, and elsewhere. He thinks pupusas are the prettiest things in the world.

Headshot: Jon Stell

Photo Credit: Staff