Deposition: On That Night & All That Was After

Emma Bolden

The sedan pushed its high beams over the county which was its roads & its fields & in them the animals,

who watched us with their invisible eyes. He said
do you want to just park here & I said are you serious

& he said no, I'm not serious, I'm Jeremy. We were always
going on like that. In the fields every ear of corn had its stalk  

& nothing sounded like music. Did I want to take him
inside of me or did I want to know if inside of me

there was an I that was me. There was an appreciable
difference. When the temperature fell I knew no one

is a hero with a jacket anymore. He said we might as well
be a movie & I said well how do you know that we aren't. Did I

want to take or did I want to know. Inside of me there was
an I, there was a night with its mouth full of stars.