down the road toward tekoa

by kathryn rantala


Something for a moment
further on

strong
or windward
gulch or photographic hills

and in the creek
or wash
the furred the feathered dead

on or on past
Pedersen and Garn
names so certain
as to write on posts

residue
as I am
on these rolled mounds
the worn away
in seams
with plastic

 
What the guidebook says to bring
off-road
may be extinguished

and sometimes that is hope

from here
the signs say
South

 


“Down The Road Toward Tekoa” initially appeared on the JB Stillwater site.