1995
Poem
by Amy Lee Heinlen
Tomorrow we can drive around this town
And let the cops chase us around
The past is gone, but something might be found
To take its place
-Gin Blossoms
on the cusp we were left to entertain
ourselves summer shadows long
across the trampoline our casual becoming
aerial acrobats in the backyard near the barn
scent of hay and fly-spray our horses cropping
pasture grass occasionally swishing their tails
25 years since we sang Hey, Jealousy
jumping into twilight off-key meaning it
You know it might not be that bad
not yet able to drive bored ready to break
glow-stick bright into next new versions of us
You were the best I’d ever had
as close to reckoning as touching stars not needing
anything but keys and tomorrow on repeat
About the Author
Amy Lee Heinlen (she/her) is a poet, publisher, and librarian based in Western Pennsylvania, United States. She’s the author of the chapbook, All Else Falls to Shadow (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems appear in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, including Literary Mama, Rogue Agent, MER, Amethyst Review, poets.org, Nasty Women: An Anthology of Subversive Verse, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University and College prize and Best Thesis in Poetry prize from Chatham University. Heinlen is co-founder and editor of Lefty Blondie Press, an independent publisher of handbound chapbooks and handset letterpress prints promoting the poetry of self-identifying women and non-binary poets. Visit her at amyleeheinlen.com and leftyblondiepress.com