Hugging the Coast

I dance along the roly poly
Climb and dive and swerve and wiggle
Ocean by my side
Land rising and falling beneath my tires

I am a being of time and space
Of velocity and inertia
Of earth and sea and wind and sky
With all the windows rolled down

The heat of the sun
The smell of salt air
I stop and listen
To waves and gulls and onshore winds

Then I climb back into steel
Roll rubber on asphalt
And burn up the miles
On the knife’s edge of land and sea