Out of Town Previewers

Out of Town Previewers

On the day of the visit 

Lookout took a page from Leah 

and sheathed herself in a cotton shawl 

that cloaked the telling curve 

of her neck, the mountain hidden 

beneath the mist. They were a curt

cluster of pleasantries, wrapped in tight 

nods and God is goods, trying on 

halls and teachers like hats, sampling 

the cafeteria’s shiniest cuisine,

 

then—having seen what was to be

seen—leaving to make a decision 

sure to alter their children’s 

lives, the lives of their children's 

children, the way we all must 

take the test before we’ve studied

and bear the consequences of all 

we didn’t know, those many mountains

that of a sudden show their faces

bearing down over the baseball field.