“Car of the Future,” by Trish Marshall (Poetry ’17)

Four poems by MFA graduate and program staff Trish Marshall were recently featured in the Leon Literary Review. Read an excerpt of “Car of the Future” below:

Car of the Future

You ask the universe for a car, you get the car, but it’s from the future & you don’t know how to drive it.
— Bobbi, reading the cards I draw in answer to my question

Go on, shutter your house.
The rain is the rain is the rain.
It has no mind of you.
It’s just rain being rain. Gravity
draws it down from the cloud, draws it down
from the chain, collects it
in the pebble trench
you’ve dug around your shut-up hut
that won’t let it in.

Find the rest of this poem (and three others) here: http://leonliteraryreview.com/author-page/trish-marshall/