Fort Stockton Walmart

Jeffrey L. Taylor

June 30, 2024

Fort Stockton is a long way
from Sonora where the West Texas
desert starts. It’s near sprawling ranches,
I-10, and oil fracking. We needed
food for roadside lunches
and more containers for ice.
The containers are easy to find. For lunch
we find Columbus charcuterie,
my favorite from San Francisco,
my hometown. The prosciutto
is perfect to wrap the dates stuffed
with pistachios we brought from Austin.

Who else out here in rural Texas
is buying charcuterie?

Jeffrey L. Taylor is a retired Software Engineer.  Around 1990, poems started holding his sleep hostage.  He has been published in The Perch, California Quarterly, Texas Poetry Calendar, and Texas Poetry Assignment.