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American Summer

Poems written while traveling.

Badlands


After a long stretch of incorporeal transition
time will release its obligations as I think—

how deftly I have come to this indelible place
where speed becomes relative to the roadside

swallows and even gravity is hard-put to hold
this road down while traveling with cruise control.

Darling, make a note of this wicked landscape
as those mountains remain our hapless and immediate

destination.  Like moths to a porch light we reveal
the weakened nature of our intentions and pursuits.

This land is alluring and its beauty congeals
as a thing we exchange in quick, furtive glances.




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