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Reflections on life with the top down.




Living in a Scene from a Movie on a Friday Night, Toward Home*

At dusk the sky is
smoke-glass, the
world is blacklit surrreal. The
silvery jet traces the
Tollway in descent. Its
redflashing winglights leave a
neonesque streak above the
red-ribbon of taillights painting a
mood on the highway, while
Sting sings in
stereo a
medley on
smooth-jazz
radio.
 
-jwh-
 
*Editor's Choice Award, National Library of Poetry, 1996

Transcendence on the Tri-State, before Eight, Tuesday June 16 (1992) 

Prelude to dusk.
Chrome sky feels like rain, breezy, clean;
convertible and I in high gear,
top down, senses up to speed.
There is greed for the quintessential octane
blend, heart bursts its old wineskin,
free hand upflung like Pentecostal prayer,
saxaphone and five strings,
As Dreams Do, from Shades of Shadow.
The melody, velocity, saturation:
my orgasmic pagan
eucharist. 

-jwh-
The Road Home

Something about a convertible, no
wall across the sky, though
grounded we seem to fly. And
as I pass the airport the jet looms
large overhead, seems to
swing me like a partner in a
barn dance before sonic-sailing out of
view, and I realize how myopic had been my
vision before I
folded back the roof of my dreams and
buckled in.

-jwh-

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