Monday, January 10, 2011

Ice Cold Nights

spiders crawl across the windshield
leaving behind webs of dendritic ice crystals
scattering headlights into dots across the retina

as my vision shrinks to a spot close to the defroster
hunched down I peer out onto the dark highway
stars wheeling overhead, the moon above
I pray that my car will go straight across
that black ice and bring me  home
safely

2 comments:

Cecile said...

sounds like ALaska ;)

Genevieve said...

I could not live in Alaska...I can only take this a few days in a row!