Commute, by Alarie Tennille

18th Street East, by Michael Driggs (USA). Contemporary. Click image to visit artist site.

Commute

Who hasn’t thought it?
You’re driving home
through the gray part
of town, in the gray part
of day. Almost sleepdriving,
following other cars
in an ant trail
up and down,
up and down –
the red lights barely bright enough to break
your trance.

What if – just once –
you take off, turn onto the interstate.
St. Louis, Chicago, Denver –
commit to a direction and go!

Alarie Tennille

Alarie’s latest poetry book, Waking on the Moon, contains many poems first published by The Ekphrastic Review. Please visit her at alariepoet.com.