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Night Highway

Driving through the Canadian Prairies

By Maureen Kellar-KirbyPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
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Night Highway
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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.

nature poetry
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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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