Love Poem to A County Highway
The country roads have changed so much:
McMansions hoard one fields like castles
and new sewage and city water lines scar
six miles east, engaging the clutch
of double-wides trailers and tidy old houses. Maybe I’m jealous,
stuck in my city apartment, surrounded by Postmates
and concrete. But I have once dreamed of the idea of home,
of an acre or two somewhere away. Dreamed of grass
and the kind of old trees folks chopped,
maples too close to stone four-car garages.
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Love the way “Maybe I’m jealous” opens the poem, the way “dreamed” is repeated like a refrain, and the way “and concrete” weighs down the beginning of its line.
Thank you!
M”cMansions hoard one fields like castlesand new sewage and city water lines scar
six miles east,”
It’s beyond real.
I absolutely love this poem. Thank you for sharing it.
Thank you for your kind comment!
I miss the country. I’m used to much more grass. I guess I can relate.