Elizabeth Bluth
Crossing Country
Open windows draw the heat of summer into
our compact, mobile world.
Your hair, caught in the breeze,
spirals around your head, catching in your teeth
as you smile.
I see myself in your sunglasses.
The fields and farmlands of our country
spread out around us for miles
and miles. A lone bovine
or two occasionally flitting by
as we continue on the highway.
When we reach our destination on
the eastern shores of this continent,
we’ll say goodbye.
And I’ll watch you board a plane that
takes you back to where you started.
Your diagnosis looms in our future,
wholly unknown to us now.
On the horizon we see only the setting sun
and signage for the next small town,
the promise of a bite of food,
a bed to rest our stiff and drowsy bodies.
In time, this will all be a blur of memories,
some of my last warm moments with you.
But today, motel coffee and cheese danish in hand,
the road ahead brimming with possibilities,
we are untroubled, enveloped in the joy of
our own companionship.
our compact, mobile world.
Your hair, caught in the breeze,
spirals around your head, catching in your teeth
as you smile.
I see myself in your sunglasses.
The fields and farmlands of our country
spread out around us for miles
and miles. A lone bovine
or two occasionally flitting by
as we continue on the highway.
When we reach our destination on
the eastern shores of this continent,
we’ll say goodbye.
And I’ll watch you board a plane that
takes you back to where you started.
Your diagnosis looms in our future,
wholly unknown to us now.
On the horizon we see only the setting sun
and signage for the next small town,
the promise of a bite of food,
a bed to rest our stiff and drowsy bodies.
In time, this will all be a blur of memories,
some of my last warm moments with you.
But today, motel coffee and cheese danish in hand,
the road ahead brimming with possibilities,
we are untroubled, enveloped in the joy of
our own companionship.
Biography
Elizabeth Bluth is a writer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Her work has appeared or is upcoming in LIT Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, VERSIFICATION Zine, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, and others. She has a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing and an MFA in Fiction from The New School. Twitter: @elizakbluth. Website: elizabethbluth.com
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