The Bumper Car Cowboy Turns Blue by Sean Faletti

Poetry editor Sara Daniels on today’s poem: In “The Bumper Car Cowboy Turns Blue,” Sean Faletti explodes a single bar scene into a sonic, technicolor frenzy of wannabes, whiskey, and weeping. Dizzying, dangerous characters lurk in this modern Western to pull us—speaker and readers alike—along the knife’s edge of beauty and violence. Turns out both are blue. See for yourself. the bumper car cowboy…