David A. Bart - poems
  • Intro
  • Home
  • Kingdom Come
  • Tunnel of Love
  • Exit Now
  • The Passion
  • Texas Education
  • Dumb Supper
  • Good Year
  • Toys
  • Saint Michael and the Devil
  • Invisible Knights
  • The Rain Gauge
  • Ponder
  • Remainder
  • Green Ghost
  • December 13th
  • Dedication
  • Prevailing Wind
  • Dreamland 1911
  • 10
  • On the Median
  • These Things Happen
  • White Water
  • The October People
  • Scene from a Moral Panic
  • Estrellita
  • Another Ending
  • What We're Dealing With
  • How Did the Foxes Die?
  • There was a Man
  • Bio. and credits
White Water

​It's gonna work this time.
The die-cast metal promise
posted above the porcelain
basin always made us forget
it never worked before. We pumped
the chrome handle until our hands
gave out trying to get a taste of blue
or to see an orange arc. The corroded
spigot dribbled nothing but plain water.
We tried all summer, even though
we knew the sign, colored only,
must not be right.


​American Journal of Poetry, Volume 2, 2017




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