Sunday, October 5, 2014

I-5 (Nocturne)

Diesel exhaust
the savor of it
and the rumble, low
of 18-wheelers at dusk.

A trucker's focused
on this single point:
the yellow light
swarming with gnats.

He hands the girl
behind the counter cash;
she remembers that
detail because no trucker hands her cash.

He's hauling gravel
in a trailer pocked with rust.
He won't be seen again --
this is his last run.

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