(Looking down the road
Looking down the road into the future, she said, is such a mismatched bunch of words. Looking down is staring through your fear into the past. It’s rolling broken head over bloodied heals because you weren’t watching where-what you were trying to reach. I have more mountains to climb after the range I’m already assaying. Those are the future. They’re nowhere but up the road, path, poorly marked or fully unblazed trail.