Road, by Laura Cherry

Malvern Hills Landscape, photography by Anthony of Inspired Images (UK). Contemporary.

Road               
                                      
Apricot sunrise caught me
under a green blanket.
 
It enters as it will
with no apology, no blame.
 
If I take the road across
the wolds, how long before
 
the fields end and you
begin? Is that the sea?
 
I’ll never make
that drive, nor you return
 
to me.

Laura Cherry
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Editor's note: The photograph shown is a placeholder image. Laura Cherry's poem was inspired by David Hockney's The Road Across the Wolds (UK, 1997.) We hope you will follow this link to see the painting so that you get the full effect of the poem.
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Laura Cherry is the author of the collection Haunts (Cooper Dillon Books) and the chapbooks Two White Beds (Minerva Rising) and What We Planted (Providence Athenaeum). She co-edited the anthology Poem, Revised (Marion Street Press). Her work has been published in journals including Antiphon, Clementine Poetry Journal, Los Angeles Review, Cider Press Review, Tuesday; An Art Project, and Hartskill Review.