This exquisite solitude
Gift of remote places
And empty highways
The specks
On my windshield
Remind me
Revel in this experience
The specks
On my windshield
Remind me
Revel in this experience
But at the edge
Brief silhouette
As sunlight rages
And resists
It carries on
Through lands unmarked
To where I cannot be
Though straight it drives
‘Cross many miles
It never does arrive
I remind myself
The valley once
Was plateau
Thrust up high
Then worn away
By time and weather
Stale cigarettes
And mildew
Saggy mattress
Flickering lights
Edges unaligned
Contexts out of reference
Colours unbalanced
But every time
I find a wall
Which limits me
And makes me small
I push it back
A little way
Become a bigger
Man that day
I cannot see
Into the depths
I cannot see
The other side
But I stand here, now
Beyond so many
Impassable barriers
All along the way
Poet’s words
For simple colours
Writ large
On an epic landscape