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American Summer

Poems written while traveling.

Highway 111


Cross winds stretch
the play in the steering.
The heart beats faster.

Four miles outside of Palm Springs
surprised by the empty desert
and these mountains

which look like no other mountains.
Gusts of adrenalin.
The road lies on a lucid bed.

Salt cedars break the wind.
A dark brown woman
passes quickly in a Mercedes-Benz.

The road lies.  The land
rolls with the wind.  And still
the indians have remained, hidden

in the sharp canyons
with their multitude of palms,
or at the relinquished hot springs,

and outside the walls of the motel pools,
outside the freight entrance
to Saks's Fifth Avenue.




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