Poetic Referendum(s) On Life

The Narrowing Way MV)

The Narrowing Way

Time stretches out on this forgotten highway
All the turn offs once spied have gone away
The scenery rushes past fast --
the setting sun melds with gas
obstacles glimmering spray
across my windshield
deflecting

Bright distractions of fading hope
dull in dismay
Why was I lead astray to chase you down
a narrowing, low way?

Dust eddies and spirals back down in patches where
my balding tires contact --
aprons warning to steer back
seek the straight, horizontal, equatorial byway
I'm chasing
slower than these daily rotations
that pin me, magnetized to axis
dirt road
weeds.

I brake to contemplate
Sorry I didn't notice you on this journey
My mind wandered to highway underpasses
and grasses, invaded by seeds on winds
(like me)
producing beautiful outgrowth
colors striking dry imagination
robotically set
to coast a time-lapsed drive 'til death.


3.25.20
Nothing has to mean anything
But we should experience something
Along the way

I'm not beautiful, you are --
I notice