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Fri Dec-12-08 07:51 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 12/12/2008) |
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I Dream a Highway
---— after Gillian Welch
The car quivers under pinpricks of starlight in western Pennsylvania. Bare trees on the mountaintops are backlit, iron filings tugged by a magnet. I'd blame the moon if I could see it, blown behind the silos with chimney smoke. Lit white as my face, the highway I dream is empty. Snow suspended in the headlights never touches the windshield. Darkness fills the rear-view as the road behind dissolves, no longer needed. Ahead, our city opens its hand, and I am calling the streets by name, a litany: Arcadia, Hudson, Neil. Tonight nothing sleeps, not the river or the geese that belong to the river. Not the few seed pods that survived winter. They rattle their brittle envelopes on a tree we could touch by removing the window screen. Even the screen is awake all night, dicing, printing a grid onto the landscape. But when we walk outside, everything is whole.
Maggie Smith
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Ah, how lovely!
Great imagery...
I love these ideas!
Thank you...
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