Luling Oil

Jeffrey L. Taylor

July 6, 2025

Oil wells in Luling—
small but mighty,
bucking broncos,
rocking grasshoppers—
smell of oil
in the rearview mirror
before the animated
oil wells register.

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.