The nervous forward tension:
two bikes strapped
to the back of one small car
Their secure rattle
on the inevitable highway
manufactures images
Wheels and wheels and sprockets
peanut buttered
on asphalt and asphalt and glass
Fear and speed are like jelly and bread:
heat up the latter
and the former fills the surface
Wobbles are like a handshake
in which one hand grasps too soon
holding the other by the fingers
Each analogy threatens
to fall off the table
shattering mug and spreading coffee
Onto a surface
of greater
stability
Roman Ryan 