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Driving back home from Rochester

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Driving back home from Rochester, 3 weeks ago
A month after I’d passed through snowy acres
looking for a path to a prior ordering
avoiding the indices and canaries I’d placed 
I walked into the snare I’d set
with no intentions for the south until then

Now on this highway, my cyclone is dispersing
my personal eyre is homebound
the road starts to feel like credits
scrolling down the windshield
what ended though, I'm not concerned
but this view is also putting me to sleep
and I need to stay awake for these large potholes
existing outside any understanding of nature

I see a lit up shop window across a field
and a small part of me feels compelled towards it
I wonder if that's from an instinct
which kept cavemen alive by leading them to fire
and I wonder if that instinct is the same as what was
as we rode an elevator into the expanses of a psychedelic sky
which seemed like a redwood forest burning
the little fear of an oncoming end
must have been correct in some sense,

since the day we got back together
I set my alarms in reverse
so if we tried to go back to the way things were
I'd hear that old familiar ring, and turn around.

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Posted Jun 16, 2018, 5:39 AM UTC · edited

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