Rustic Roads Poem by Khristian E. Kay

Rustic Roads

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I wish you
had seen the flurry of orange carpet take flight
drifting a lazy smoke of Sulphur Moths
twirling a slow motion whirling dervish
alight in the dust devil updrafts waning and
coating my view breaking waves afore me
with some invisible prow and then closing
in around pounding a fluttering encircling embrace
encompassing like of a salt water surf
still-life surfing at the epicenter of a wake like
a mad butterfly equinox

I wish you
had witnessed the amorous skunks taking the Beatles
to heart propagating in the early morning sun oblivious
to the man made rumble of fossil fuel combustion
in a civil evolutionary fusion in the crunch of gravel
paws padding gentle nest making patters
low mews imperceptible in the sequential candescence
the double backed white stripe
pointing a different path down the highway
one taken many times but each unique and
singular in their moments

I wish you
had ridden with me the sinewy roads through the kettles
winding and serpentine under the deciduousness
and nettles of a Wisconsin autumn
your arms across my chest more embrace than
security a symmetrical gyro in pirouette
wheeling the heated congress of flexing rubber
onto the lithe impassioned tarmac
the wind a lover tearing and pulling at your hair
wafting crisp like fermenting apples sweet and
chilled in the kiss of cider

I wish you
had experienced the thrill of one hundred thirty mile winds
on top a steel steed rocket slaloming the center line
a streaming consciousness provoking poetic
the western dusk driven skies
through a thousand years of glacier etched
pointillism landscapes painted with
the staccato brush of prairie grass and cattails
and river rust clay a retronym shaped and formed
with a willowing sallow breath as I ride
alone off into the sunset

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COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Mary Gordley 29 January 2008

In the best poetic manner, your reader is there through the magic of your work. Thanks again.

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