Night Highway
Driving through the Canadian Prairies
Strange night
lonesome
the prairie road runs endlessly
night air
restless
blowing cold and threatening
I whiz by pale hay bales scattered at intervals
under gigantic dark sky fields alternating with sunflowers and canola
I roll down the window
so the evening breeze can blow softly my thoughts away
past tilted and collapsed grey wooden barns
and cattle lost in wandering pasture
deteriorating Alberta Pacific Grain elevators and gigantic turbines rotating
I shake away the drowiness of the monotony
of landscape repeated mile after mile
and listen to the spinning wheels beneath me
droning hollow over the uneven black pavement
speeding me into the night.
About the Creator
Maureen Kellar-Kirby
Maureen Kellar-Kirby, author of "Go Back Jack" and "The Leprechaun Who Was Not a Mouse" - Total Recall Press - movie scripts "Go Back Jack", "Jimi's Last Poem" and "Idiot House" with music soundtracks. https://www.maureenkellar.com.
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