Diesel by Michael Goodfellow

August 29, 2023
Poem title: Diesel Poet name: Michael Goodfellow Poem: Tide was a motor, gap in the sparkplug twisted black. Sea shone with undercoat, windy days were gears grinding, clutch of a storm. Rockweed choked the beach in wire, cable running the pitchy bottom. Through rotten cast iron, suck of brackish water in the basement drain. The sump ran all night, jerrycan of diesel at the basement stairs. Nothing stopped turning. Sunset left a sheen. End of poem. Credits and bio: Copyright © Michael Goodfellow Previously published in Naturalism, an Annotated Bibliography (Gaspereau Press, 2022). Michael Goodfellow is the author of the poetry collections Naturalism, An Annotated Bibliography (2022) and Folklore of Lunenburg County (2024), both published by Gaspereau Press. His poems have appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, The Dalhousie Review, The Cortland Review, Reliquiae and elsewhere. He lives in Nova Scotia.