{"id":44,"date":"2009-04-11T21:05:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=44"},"modified":"2009-04-11T21:05:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T04:05:17","slug":"to-the-man-in-the-other-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"To The Man in the Other Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Barbara Sweeney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beside us the ocean<br \/>\nmoves into place<br \/>\nbeneath us the road<br \/>\nspins out a glass story.<br \/>\nStorms of light fight<br \/>\nbetween your lane<br \/>\nand my lane<br \/>\nI turn when<br \/>\nyou turn<br \/>\nthe sun in all our mirrors<br \/>\nmultiplies by fives.<br \/>\nWith twin force we<br \/>\nswallow a bump<br \/>\ncurve out necks to the left<br \/>\nmouth the same tune.<br \/>\nO to be in perfect time<br \/>\nwith a perfect stranger.<\/p>\n<p>It is an unchristened intimacy<br \/>\n(I do not look at your face.)<br \/>\nIt is an unbearable coupling broken by<br \/>\nmy foot going down hard to the floor.<br \/>\nI move ahead of you and<br \/>\nhead on into new air<br \/>\nglinting<br \/>\nas I go.<\/p>\n<p><em> Appeared in The Washout Review;<br \/>\nVol. 1\/No. 4, Summer, 1976<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbara Sweeney Beside us the ocean moves into place beneath us the road spins out a glass story. Storms of light fight between your lane and my lane I turn when you turn the sun in all our mirrors multiplies by fives. With twin force we swallow a bump curve out necks to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to_the_man_in_the_other_car","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/basweeney.com\/writings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}