​POETRY  -  
          With a Theme of Work 

What if the Prius won't start? 
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Tow Truck Blues at 4 A.M.
by Angie Minkin

​​I don’t sleep at 4 a.m. It’s just a given.
I’m awake at 4 a.m. You, too?
 
Let’s talk, then, about steamy sheets,
let’s talk love at 4 a.m. Let’s talk
 
breath and lasting and holding strong
at 4 a.m. Let’s talk kids and worries and hope.
 
Wait. I can’t hear you. Wait. Don’t
sleep. Don’t leave me alone at 4 a.m.
 
Let’s talk about how the morning will be-
come a new day, maybe a day without fear,
 
maybe a day with sun. Well, what if the Prius
won’t start? Well, maybe the tow truck driver
 
will arrive like a knight. Maybe he too is up
at 4 a.m., smiling because he saves people
 
from terrible days and lost causes.
Maybe he’ll rev our stalled engines.

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​Angie Minkin is a coauthor of Dreams and Blessings: Six Visionary Poets. A poetry editor and contributor at Vistas & Byways Review, her work also appears in Birdland Journal, Motherscope, New Verse News, and the Pangolin Review, and will be forthcoming in the anthology Fog and Light. Angie has attended numerous writing workshops and is a member of the Marin Poetry Center, the Bay Area Poets Coalition, and the Academy of American Poets. When not writing, she practices yoga, takes dance classes, and travels to Oaxaca, Mexico, whenever possible.

Other pieces in this Issue:  
Poetry: 
On Jerry Day, I Look for My Mother

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