{"id":6281,"date":"2021-01-04T21:34:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2021-01-04T21:34:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T03:34:53","slug":"mark-jackley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.onesentencepoems.com\/?p=6281","title":{"rendered":"Mark Jackley “Manuals”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Jackley<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Manuals<\/span><\/h2>\n

Who knows why I dreamt
\nthat I could start my Ford
\nby crawling underneath it
\nand lighting votive candles\u2014
\nit was car repair for poets,
\nstaring at the cold
\nbaffling machinery
\nin the little darkness,
\nadmiring the perfect
\ncurve of the crescent wrench,
\nwhich recalled the dance of starlings
\nspelling something in
\nthe alphabet of dusk\u2014
\nnot an answer,
\nnot a question,
\nhardly an equation,
\nthough possibly a page
\nfrom a manual we have lost.<\/p>\n

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Mark Jackley<\/strong><\/span> lives in Purcellville, Virginia. His poems have appeared in <\/em>Fifth Wednesday, Natural Bridge, Talking River, and other journals.<\/em><\/p>\n

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