May 9: Racing the vulture

trying to drive faster

than the vulture overhead

homeward

April 14: Sleet

Slow drive in sleet.

If birds, he’d be a swift,

I’d be a waxwing.

April 13: Driving stories

roadside memorials

counting crows

all the way to Vermont

March 16: Box Canyon

winding canyon road

we pull over

to let three cows pass

January 28: Hawks

To keep myself amused on long drives, I sometimes keep a tally of all the Red-tailed Hawks I see perched along the roadside, watching for prey. 

Measuring the miles—

from Kittery to Camden

a seven-hawk drive. 

December 26: Driving home

just ten degrees 

miles and miles of snowy fields

only one crow flying

November 22: Thankful

Moment of grace:

vole dashing under my tires

was only an oak leaf.

November 16: Being read to

Audiobook

crime novel set in Venice—

I want to keep driving

November 6: In the Whites

Even the truck driver

stops to photograph

the roaring waterfalls.

October 20: White River

Following the White River

to its mountain source.

Driving back in time.

October 18: Detour

Bridge closed.

Geese float upriver

waiting for dark.

October 5: Warm spell

Car windows open.
A yellow leaf
becomes a fellow passenger.

October 3: Chill

Cold snap.

Turning up the heat

and the car stereo.

August 26: Route 52

Roadside orchard--

boughs of ripening apples

half-cover a road sign.

 

 

August 25: Miss

Lunch meeting.

Braking in time

to miss the squirrel.

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August 9: Moon-viewing

driving around town

looking for the best angle

to watch the rising moon

 

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June 21: Solstice

Longest day--

bird in the headlights

hurries to its roost.

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June 13: Night

Moths in headlights.

Falling asleep

on the drive home.

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May 7: Going home

Monotony of rain,

the windshield wipers.

Talk of second chances.

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April 29: Roadside wonders

In the field

where we always look for turkeys--

flock of turkeys.

 

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