Vincent Carotenuto
 	  
  Winter Fancy Dream Car
             
   Rod divining hot guys 
              heart warming cordial 
              ice breaker 
              shapely dreamboat 
              built shipmates 
              bed careering 
              up in great states 
              all the vagrant stag athlete 
              night roads 
              in the pentamorphic 
              sweetwater agon shed 
              river of big fresh lake spans 
              inlets, marinas, berm 
              breakdown lanes, snow shoulders 
              parked esculent loin succulent 
              cruise frigate liner 
   pleasing teasing struggler 
              muscular snuggler 
               
              Aswim aboard 
              auto courting 
              the backseat diving 
              rear parlor swains, beaux 
              cheap rolling room 
              limousine divan 
              motor hotel 
              agreeable accommodations 
              diving sedan 
              cream-puff driven bargain 
               
              Then all is lost 
              police beef traffic 
              minor violation

  Now prison-hard yard birds  
              battle bateaux  
              at the sticky Collision Bend  
              of the burning river  
              become the Styx aflame  
              Destroyers ram Cruiser  
                
              Eeeaghh!  
              for choosing not to love  
              my guilty eyes now unremming  
              blind to life  
              finally blind  

              to that bravest  
              divinest vision destination  
              blind for good.

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  Vincent Carotenuto has published poetry
  in Whiskey Island Magazine, Pudding 
  Magazine, and Red Owl Magazine. He 
  lives in Cleveland, Ohio.