HIGHWAY 1

                     by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett 

In the eastern shoulder's
scrub and hunched trees,

a doe noses the air, flicks
ears toward car's rumble.

Headlights swim over two
fauns, frozen beside her.

We all hang there a long
moment—her knee lifted

to bolt and your hands
that still smell of my salt,

gripping the wheel—then
round a bend, and this

junker—now, ark—ferries
us into the rest of our lives.







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Luiza Flynn-Goodlett is the author of four chapbooks, including Twice Shy forthcoming from Nomadic Press and Harm's Way forthcoming from dancing girl press. In 2018, she was a finalist for both the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry from Tupelo Press. Her poetry can be found in Third Coast, The Journal, The Common, Granta, and elsewhere. She serves as editor-in-chief of the queer literary journal Foglifter and lives in sunny Oakland, California.