Tag: United States of America

Small Wonders

The heat of the day lingers
Even as the low haze
Filters the sunken sun

I stop for a moment
Lean up against the fender
In the dry, brittle air
While the engine tinks and cracks

I never tire
Of the small wonders this world offers

Steel Wheels
Get me where I’m goin’
When rubber on the road failed
And the leather on my soles
Wore through

Freedom
Ain’t never gotten with a dollar
Or no lawful decree
Not like a box car
Give to me

Through a lens
I see the world

With filters
Adding colours
With thinking
Adding meanings

Until the world I see
Looks nothing like
The world which is

It was a stop along the way
A place between

Here

and

There

Holdover from a time
Of neon
Air-con
And movin’ on

Pinnacle rises
From valley floor
Testament to
Reaching for the sky

I remind myself
The valley once
Was plateau
Thrust up high
Then worn away
By time and weather

The stops along the road
They come and go
And sometimes come again

Though when they do
They’re not the same

But when they’re gone
They’re lost forever

I love finding
Improbable places
Where my reason
And imagination
Are equally taxed

When the unimaginable
Becomes reasonable
Imagination soars

Were all the world
Made of gold
Then wealth beyond
Imagining
Would be ours to share

But for lack
Of soil and sod
What food
Could riches grow?

As night drops down
Headlights on the road
Looking for a bed
A shower

Stale cigarettes
And mildew
Saggy mattress
Flickering lights

This is not a place
That time passed by
Or has forgotten

Time is always active
Always present
Always changing

Only consciousness
Forgets
Or represses

Time is always moving
Cultures move on
People move on