Monday, September 17, 2018

day SIX HUNDRED and SIX


Avoiding Traffic on the Morning Commute


One eye open
sipping drive-through coffee
two lanes filled with parked cars
at my exit to work

with a quick rear-view glance
I gun the engine, skirt the traffic,
and take the next exit, slow-boat my way
down side streets to the office

It is a warm spring morning
as I pass a tractor-trailer
on my left, passenger side window down,
a beagle with its head out in the wind
ears flapping, tongue lolling.

Best thing I’ll see all day.

--Shawn Pavey

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