Cardboard Figures in a Landscape

Elaine Equi

A truck goes by. 

It sounds like a truck 

full of boxes. 

 Heavy things 

getting jostled, 

 sliding around 

on top of each other. 

 Sex between boxes. 

With boxes 

 one doesn't know 

what one is getting into. 

 A thud. A thump. 

A loud horn 

 signals the climax, 

satisfying for all.