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Four poems - Dashboard scenery

(I)

watched – the trees sliding past – us

blur into each other.

Rush, rush, rush

said the air

as we approached the horizon

The sky was an opaque grey;

(looked) like a cement wall.

I imagined an invisible giant placing the earth into a concrete box.

I wondered if I had ever been

a blur in(to) the scenery – (the sky) –

for someone watching me through a car window.

What was meant to be a comforting hand on my shoulder (instead)

felt stiff and contained, it felt like

fingers – were – made (of) plastic

I wondered if

parts of me were perhaps stuck

on a landscape like smeared paint

– mistakes –

I wondered if (you) my love

had ever driven past me.

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Published
Apr 11, 2013
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