Ann Hart
At the red light
car in front of mine
the flat of a hand
keeps four-four time
Poundin’ on the door
Beatin’ like a drum
Diamond ring a flashin’
In the early evening sun
lower down my window
catch the tune on the breeze
Syncopate together
’til the light turns green
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Ann Hart is a poet and graduate student in creative writing at Eastern Illinois University. She loves to travel to poetry events and explore pre-1900 cemeteries. She is a reader for Bluestem and the Champaign News-Gazette’s CU Haiku. She was featured at the 2017 Nancy Hennings Memorial Poetry Reading. Her work can be found in the anthology Tomato Slices, at Rattle-Poets Respond, C-U Haiku, and Silver Birch Press. She was the 2016 winner of CUMTD Poets on the Bus with her poem “These Eight Short Lines.”
