The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car by Dorothea Grossman

I am riding this wave until it’s over. Dear universe: please give this to me.

The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car
Dorothea Grossman

It was your idea
to park and watch the elephants
swaying among the trees
like royalty
at that make-believe safari
near Laguna.
I didn’t know anything that big
could be so quiet.

And once, you stopped
on a dark desert road
to show me the stars
climbing over each other
riotously
like insects
like an orchestra
thrashing its way
through time itself
I never saw light that way
again.