Category: driving
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Rhinocerous rain
Driving north out of Nashville, traffic thickens to a slow confession near Fort Campbell, brake lights bloom like votive candles stretching out into Kentucky. I think of Thomas Merton, cloistered among the knobs and forests of Gethsemani Monastery. Where silence became a discipline. Prayer was not an escape, but another way of entering the world.…
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empty highway
empty highway low country dark headlights split the night center line reflectors yellow crescent moon set cruise and go 8-23-23
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Dandelions and ragweed
On the way to Florence the highway department erects ten foot walls to protect empty fields from highway noise. In a low income neighborhood all night long you hear semi’s roar on the interstate. Rich developers’ fields grow straighter and taller in a quiet environment and dandelions and ragweed votes count. 11-4-22
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Day old Tang
On the western edge of Eastern Time Pink and lavender clouds curtain the horizon You race west into the sunset Before your cell phone clock Back flips into Central Time You haven’t bothered to calculate the spin And tilt of the earth, the angle And slope of the road or the speed of your car,…
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I26 near Spartanburg
near the border near sunset near home pass through storm’s edge on the other side sun still hangs on horizon multiple rainbows prism the sky semis shed water streams windshield wipers on high tires hydroplane steer back control race on towards home 7-20-22
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haiku for the Tri-State construction traffic jam around Chicago
road river riders orange and white sentinels line the path through hell 8-26-21
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hometown visit haiku
the mountain flows up from where the river pulls it one piece at a time 8-22-21
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haiku driving north through Indiana flatlands
distant horizon anvil cloud draws rain curtain across fields of corn 8-19-21
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Advice for driving uber in Five Points
a rose fragrance swinging on a string from rear view mirrors makes monitoring drunk students smell a wee bit better 8-7-21
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