In tornado weather
wet-ash light
blows across the road
I'm driving with my foot to the floor
sixty miles over flat midwestern highway
driving to hear poetry
the sky ready
to boil over, a lid clamped on
the pressure drops
flattens the landscape further
I watch the horizon for state troopers
think of the wind:
one hundred miles to the west it has
sliced the top off a hospital
smashed two miles of Kalamazoo
nothing anyone will read tonight
is wild enough
Judith Kerman is the editor/publisher of Mayapple Press. Her prose poem book, Mothering (Uroboros Books/Allegany Mountain Press, 1978) received Honorable Mention in the 1978 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award competition; it has been reissued with a companion play in Mothering & Dream of Rain (Ridgeway Press, 1996) and as a Storyspace (tm) hypertxt in Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext 2.2.
Updated 6/8/04
Judith
Kerman
Driving for Yellow Cab
Paper, saddlestitched, 16 pp
$5.00 plus s&h
1985, Tout Press
ISBN 0-932412-04-1
SORRY
- OUT OF PRINT
