George E. Clark
Moving On
I was helping my girlfriend pack
It was a rest break
She was sitting on boxes
Talking about professor what's his face
A single drop of sweat was hanging off her nose
She wiped it with her wrist
So that her fingers hung down toward her chest
It was gesture so unlike her that I was
Shocked to see her slack and resting
But then she swung her feet
Squatted to check the roadmap
And wondered out loud if the motels on interstate ninety
Make moving trucks park out back
And should she buy a thicker lock. She grinned
Because her map lying corrugated on the floor
Meant nothing there would tie her to before
Bio
George E. Clark is a college librarian during the week and a hospital security guard on Saturdays. He is a former columnist for Environment magazine. His poetry has been published in The Resource, Harvard University's human resources newsletter; in Crucible, the literary magazine of Earlham College; and in Lines in the Landscape, a juried chapbook published by Fruitlands Museum and the Concord (MA.) Poetry Center. George studied geology at Earlham College, geography at The University of Chicago and Clark University, where he got his Ph.D., and library science at Simmons College.