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Poems by Glenn Bach

 

25

the oily timbre
    of automobiles    engines
distant drone of cars
 
the blend of traffic
    from each street and the other
in each direction
 
only to vanish
    with a new sound    or the wind
or my own footsteps

 

35

Thin rubber strips of windshield wipers sweep
rain-dampened windshields, squeegee supported
in six places for even pressure, firm
contact (moving a lever back and forth
 
in the old days), the hum of the motor
and worm gear, the squeak, the water flicking
away, an obliterated surface of rain,
reborn anew between each arcing pass.

 

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