George Lober lives in Carmel, California. He is a former winner of the Ruth Cable Memorial Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Spectrum; Sage; The MPC Journal; Eclectic Literary Forum; Quarry West; Homestead Review; The Central California Poetry Journal; The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets, 2004; MiPOesias; and Lily. He is the author of Shift of Light (Hummingbird Press, Santa Cruz, CA, 2002).

What has been lost is simply
the round warmth of a September evening
when the driveway chatter
of four men beside an open hood and idling engine
blended with the banter of baseball on the radio,
and the spice of a neighbor’s after-shave
mixed with the bitterness of engine grease and coffee,

when your father, fluttering the air intake
of a carburetor with his hand, winked at you
behind a wide steering wheel
while your uncle’s laughter carried in the twilight,
and the assurance still lingered
that whatever man and machine had made,
men working together, given time, could fix
 

 Poems © George Lober 2005-2006

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