The Wild Boar

by Peter Filkins

Was it Kiki or Heinz who we hitched
that ride with from Hamburg to Berlin
twenty years ago, the sun setting across
the barren expanse of a North Sea marsh
as the car (an out-of-service ambulance)
pulled onto the transit highway from which
no exit was allowed except to stop

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