Joseph Johnson
Back Then
The wall: a flower
popped out
when we pulled it back.
Magpies jumped
to pick bugs
from the bumper.
Despite itself,
a contrail. Red-winged
blackbirds swerved
from the windshield.
We fooled around
back then.
We played in
Livingston
on a dead field, & sun
was underneath our skin.
Joseph Johnson lives and teaches in Missoula, MT. He received his MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and his work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Abstract Magazine TV, Chicago Review, Pleiades, Prelude, Southern Indiana Review, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere.
Quisque iaculis facilisis lacinia. Mauris euismod pellentesque tellus sit amet mollis.