You’re listening to the radio
in the truck, music on
rewind station. You think I know
this song but I’m hearing
only every fourth or fifth word
and only some of the instruments
and parts of the beat and rhythm
Just barely enough so that your mind
starts picking out the rest
of the instruments and filling in the rest
of the beat; the words begin
to move your tongue and the song
finally bursts from your lips.

-Melva Sue Priddy