Tuesday Poem: an earlier version published by Earth's Daughters in 1986, and by Fine China: Twenty Years of Earth's Daughters in 1993

1949 Pontiac

black and sleek.

My father rounds

his gleaming fastback

sparkle of chrome,

my mother already

tucked inside,

the vault-like

slam of the door 

still music

to his ears,

solid as a limo,

this dreamy Joe 

Dimaggio about 

to cruise away

with Marilyn.