The highway outside sings out on occassion, in its dull woosh of speed; like stray bits of breeze looking for the flock before the wind dives through the air with the excitement of sledding kids finishing the climb to the top of a hill- waiting to make the leap back down, and these cars are all people on thier way, sending the wind to scatter.

I used to think of wind
as one giant mass
moving through the trees,
but really it's a collective
that regroups after every run.
Sometimes they lose a draft,
or a chill, and the one guy
who likes to twirl leaves-
others get rambunctious
knocking over lawn chairs,
throwing sand into your eyes.

Oh, but the cars,
they woosh, too,
sets the breeze free,
and I don't know
who they are, but
I like to think of them
leaving thier own comfort
every so often
into some foreign territory,
and then rushing back
to whatever name thier
safety has, and I bet
they are on thier way home
so late tonight
after climbing some hill
and the exhileration
of speed as we pummel
ourselves back to safety-
the highway sounds
like the leap back down.


-e.



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