Night Moves by Joseph Mills

                  S A Kindstrom CC



Night Moves

Tired, he asks what she wants, and she says,
 “You know that old Bob Seger song?
The one about sex in the car with the lines
I used her/she used me/but neither one cared?”
He says, “Yeah” and she says, “The song is over,
then right at the end, a tambourine comes in.” 
He says, “Okay,” and she says, “No, you think 
it’s done, and it is, pretty much, and then,
it starts driving forward again and you feel it,
but you’re not thinking, ‘What the hell?
That instrument hasn’t been in this song at all.”
That’s what I want. In a date, a dance, a life.
I want to be thinking that it’s almost over 
and then have a fucking tambourine come in.”

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Joseph Mills has published six collections of poetry, most recently "Exit, pursued by a bear." Last year, he published his debut collection of fiction, "Bleachers: 54 linked fictions." More information about his work can be found at www.josephrobertmills.com

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