Sonnet

Anthony Lynch

The hills arrived and I kept driving.

With every civic car park this theory

Of joint tenancy grew more abstract.

There were shared passwords

And beds unmade with abandon,

But I didn’t want to ruin

Our argument with the past.

Citing roadkill would be callow

So I sent back cards

Left blank for your thoughts.

I counted ructions

And the miles between them.

Where the road withered

Lay a Switzerland of the heart.