After "Scenic [Route" by Jennifer K. Dick, "Sonnet 7/11" by Amy Hollowell, "Inside City Light" and "A Kind of Soft Sound" by Alexander Maksik

In the Rush
by Jonathan Wonham

Dreaming shivering
take me in a photograph
pressed against the sky.

Take me in I am
air stung, ravenous
spread for me

dark and soft. Against
this withered morning
I will fit so perfectly in

right there slide me slowly
down metallic lanes
and revving, vanish.