Location of Incident
Not in that parking lot,
not in that residential area,
not in that blue car
splashed with mud.
Not in that leather backseat —
fingernail torn.
Not in that stuffy air
clouding windows.
And not —
not in this heart.
Yet —
not not in it either.
David Hanlon is a poet from Cardiff, Wales. His poetry appears in numerous magazines, including Rust & Moth, Anthropocene and trampset. His latest collection, Dawn’s Incision, was published by Icefloe Press. You can follow him on Twitter @davidhanlon13 and Instagram @hanlon6944.