You imagined yourself
There on the overpass
Leaning through snow
Further toward cars
Their outlines still dark
Their headlights
Locked by distance
Then opening as if
Cautiously the beams
Lengthening over the median
Onto leaves the underside
Of certain leaves
And the drivers inside
Each face described
By shadow each
Finally simple the skin
Lit by the vehicle's instruments
In the glow of the dash
The faces you'd dreamed of
Then gone beneath you
Leaning over the highway
Further toward cars
Toward headlights
Opening in the snow |
| From Clean, published by Persea Books. Copyright © 2011 by Kate Northrop. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. |
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