I want to take you to the river that runs behind my house
Notes from Wikiquote
vanishes between the rocks | but I can’t | because nothing runs behind my house | not even a lonely commercial highway. | I want to stand with you | on the edge of a lonely commercial highway | waiting for the jumper cables | that will restart this engine | and take us somewhere far beyond | the confines of this poem | "If you are an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh", Best New Zealand Poems, 2016