an afternoon well spent
driving country roads
     I’d yet to drive
investigating the blooms
     yellow flowers on tomato plants
seeing the last of the strawberries, remaining on the vines
sheep, pigs, miles yet ahead
seeing a deer cross the road, midday
a well kept church, far from a town

I’m curious if anyone
has driven every Kentucky highway
     each route and numbered road
no shoulder 
    curves and surprising stop signs
or if there is always
at least one more, awaiting