Interstellar Overdrive

Nicole Yurcaba's most recent poem to appear here was Fine Southern Farm Girls, published as part of Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags in December 2011.

Interstellar Overdrive
By Nicole Yurcaba

Stars can frighten ... you
—Pink Floyd

Eleven-past-eleven:
left hand guiding the steering wheel
right
hand shifting into fifth—;
you widely wound 'round
     slithering switchbacks
    slinging stinging gravel
as your shotgun rider caught
rushing nightwish wind in
her out-the-downed-
window spread fingers,
and hypnotically stared
through a truck's bug-
splattered windshield
burning an almost-midnight
summer sky's star-map
     onto her
wondering mind's canvas
becoming a dying supernova
—light extinguished—heat extinguished—
      yet too super hot
    to remain wispy smoke,
smoldering ashes.


 

Posted by Annmarie at 2/5/2012 11:24 PM
Categories: words to linger on
Tags: Nicole Yurcaba stars summer truck
 

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