• Purchase
Witness Magazine
  • Issues
    • Current Issue
    • Saṃsāra
    • Archive
      • Past Issues
      • Fiction
      • Nonfiction
      • Poetry
      • Photography
  • About
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
  • Order/Subscribe
  • Submit
  • Search

Unstuck

By Cody Ernst
Poetry•Vol. XXVIII No. 2 (Summer 2015)

We’re at a celebration of sex in sedans.
There are champagne fountains with glass angels on top,
whose wings are feathers from South America,
where doves rise like a cloud,
and some become food and others, decoration.
“Sex in Sedans,” the banner reads.
The wine is chilled and the made-up angels
sit atop the fountain
blessing us, the lovers.
We’ve been lucky.
Some have screwed sprawled out on the hoods of sedans
or balled up in the confines of the trunks;
and some have made love while the sedans were moving
full-speed down country roads
with rocks and clay
kicking up into the air. Somebody,
pull our bodies apart.
Let us walk away.

Cody Ernst
Cody Ernst's work is forthcoming in Forklift: Ohio, The Minnesota Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and other publications. He works at The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and serves as a poetry editor at The Adroit Journal.

Mailing List

Sign up for the Witness email newsletter.



Order & Subscribe

Subscribe to Witness magazine or order individual issues.

Purchase

Submit Your Work

Entries accepted in the fall for the print issue. Check for online issue dates in the link below.

Learn More

© 2006-2020 Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
All rights reserved. | Privacy Policy

  • The Black Mountain Institute
  • UNLV
  • Submit
  • Subscribe
  • Order Issues
  • Contact Us