24 Divisadero
- 24 Divisadero
Of routes and transfers, multiplying like fishes;of happiness which was always shifting form;of all the things I dreamt, nodding off on buses.When I see the darker, bolder of two girls turnfrom mythology; and U.S. historyilluminates the walls, the tracks; the world knowsher motions seem rehearsed. The ride is bumpy.The seats are taken row after row after row.
This repetition dream is a kind of slutof acceleration quickening your step.Two boys charge through the doors and start to wrestlevanity. That’s a sin of a deadly sort.The driver snacks from a bag of unshelled peanuts.Then it’s quiet as an empty church parking lot. [End Page 140]
Kathrine Varnes is the author of The Paragon and coeditor, with Annie Finch, of An Exaltation of Forms. A resident of Larchmont, New York, she is currently shopping around her first novel while managing her young son’s acting career.
