Red Light Prayer by Tobi Alfier

Green cowboy boots and short skirts,
she makes the man in the Cadillac cry.
She matched him shot for shot last night,
striated clouds a clever filter for
the moon that turns us wicked
and now she’s home, feeling nothing
but blinded by light, and full.  He’s going
to church.  Fucked and fucked, his radio
turned up to make him forget, hand
out the window trying to hitch a ride
on the forget-it-all train.  What the hell
was he thinking and what on Earth
will he do now?  Roll through a red
and pray for rescue.

 Tobi Alfier is a multiple Pushcart nominee and multiple Best of the Net nominee. Both “Slices of Alice & Other Character Studies” and a reprint of “Sanity Among the Wildflowers” were published by Cholla Needles Press. She is co-editor of San Pedro River Review (www.bluehorsepress.com)

Previously published in RE:AL  - 2010