The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 4/28/2008)

[RetroLounge]

Driving Montana

The day is a woman who loves you. Open.
Deer drink close to the road and magpies
spray from your car. Miles from any town
your radio comes in strong, unlikely
Mozart from Belgrade, rock and roll
from Butte. Whatever the next number,
you want to hear it. Never has your Buick
found this forward a gear. Even
the tuna salad in Reedpoint is good.

Towns arrive ahead of imagined schedule.
Absorakee at one. Or arrive so late--
Silesia at nine-- you recreate the day.
Where did you stop along the road
and have fun? Was there a runaway horse?
Did you park at that house, the one
alone in a void of grain, white with green
trim and red fence, where you know you lived
once? You remembered the ringing creek,
the soft brown forms of far off bison.
You must have stayed hours, then drove on.
In the motel you know you'd never seen it before.

Tomorrow will open again, the sky wide
as the mouth of a wild girl, friable
clouds you lose yourself to. You are lost
in miles of land without people, without
one fear of being found, in the dash
of rabbits, soar of antelope, swirl
merge and clatter of streams.

Richard Hugo

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:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

1. ...

The day is a woman who loves you. Open.
Deer drink close to the road and magpies
spray from your car. Miles from any town
your radio comes in strong, unlikely
Mozart from Belgrade, rock and roll
from Butte. Whatever the next number,
you want to hear it. Never has your Buick
found this forward a gear. Even
the tuna salad in Reedpoint is good.

[Inchworm]

2. I love days like that

Today is one in fact.

One long hazy day mix of daydreams.

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

7. "One long hazy day mix of daydreams"

Those are good days...

:hi:

RL

[BlueIris]

3. Friable is one of my favorite words ever. Sneaky Richard Hugo. nt

[RetroLounge]

6. Oh, i KNEW you'd love that word...

It is a favorite of mine also...

(friable - easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder;)

:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

4. ...

sounds like my kind of heaven on earth.

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Retro!

Wow, what a strong, and beautiful poem!

It has courage to speak its mind...

I have not learned how to do that yet...

I hope someday I will, though...

Thank you!

:hi: