to keep what the road gives
and pass on
to make a point in a trajectory
meant for somewhere
further than can be known
to fall so surely
toward a place ours alone
not to travel but to watch
nameless trees unleafing
in the rearview mirror
seeing this
seeing only
to weep
and think it fine
What the road gives us we often keep, or pass on, becoming a point in a trajectory meant for somewhere further than we know; we who fall so surely toward a place that is ours alone. Perhaps it is not we who travel, although it is true we watch, as one by one the nameless trees, unleafing, dance away into the rearview mirror, and we weep, and we think it fine.