Voices

One noble truth at Richmond’s Auto Repair

GUILFORD — Things fall apart

and sometimes things are

cars. When this is so

our wheels are towed

to Richmond's. We turn

from Coolidge Highway

into gratitude.

* * *

Weathered as our state

(where all seasons mingle

in a single week),

avuncular, soft-spoken

by the register, Doug, you

welcome mystery-

* * *

our burnt-out bearings,

slipping clutches, fading brakes,

discharging alternators,

shiftless transmissions,

broken timing belts or hearts.

* * *

At nightfall, sun polishes

with tenderness like yours

our aging rust and chrome.

* * *

O, Doug,

adjust our metaphors,

create within the vroom,

the om.

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