Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Driving East to West (I-70), 1999.10.22




Driving East to West
I-70
Tractor trailers thundering
Bails of hey
And farmland
Deep canyons
Where I deposit pieces of you
Peaks stretched to the sky
Priceless sapphire above
Winding road ahead
In and out
Through tunnels
And jagged walls
Majestic mountains
Cowboy hats, rodeos and toothpicks
USDA prime
Picnic lunches and BBQs
18 wheelers pounding
Driving
Driving hard

Raw land
Inescapable beauty
This is America
Home of the free and the brave
Where I find pieces of me