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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4. My dear Retro!

Ah, how lovely!

Great imagery...

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8. Happy Friday!

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