never a hot day
just the perfect everything:
lake, seltzer, beer, peaks
Road Trip 2020 (Big Sky Heaven)
travel
Road Trip 2020 (Montana, Day Three)
all arguments end
with a smooth lake and mountains
(just enjoy the view)
Road Trip 2020 (Montana, Day Two)
a roaring river
inaptly named Stillwater
brightens my morning
a glamping cabin
ends a drive past mountains, lakes
heaven, Montana
Road Trip 2020 (Montana, Day 1)
drive through Wyoming
until you reach this heaven
that is Montana
Pastry Heaven Surprise
love, in Portugal:
these perfect pastries, melted;
now just down the block
That Camp Life
scored a miracle:
thirty percent off this tent
the day i gave in
dream tent and dream house:
they go so well together
just like our family
Road Trip 2020, Day Ten
that long Kansas road
alleviated by teens
learning to drive home
Road Trip 2020, Day Nine
tent without a fly
for another river day
flanked by swimming dogs
Road Trip 2020, Day Eight
along a river
this fairy tale ferry stop
has stood a beacon
in muddy waters
kids get to be kids all day
while mamas paddle
nature is our home
found in Kentucky fire
lit by desire
Road Trip 2020, Day Seven
there is no escape here.
only evasion.
it’s up this curvy road packed with hill after horse-country hill,
packed with perfect fences and horses whipping their tails,
with cars zooming past, some honking at my hugging-the-shoulder presence as i pedal
pedal
pedal
past these race-won mansions,
these stacked-limestone walls that can’t trap me in or out,
into the sunny, humid heat of midday Kentucky,
so far from home, so far from home,
so near to everything that is hard and easy, up and down these endless hills
in a circle that isn’t a circle.
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