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Interstellar Overdrive


02.06.12 Posted in words to linger on by

Nicole Yurcaba’s most recent poem to appear here was Fine Southern Farm Girls, published as part of Contributor Series 10: Silken Rags in December 2011.

Interstellar Overdrive
By Nicole Yurcaba


Stars can frighten … you

–Pink Floyd

Eleven-past-eleven:

left hand guiding the steering wheel

right

hand shifting into fifth–;
you widely wound ’round
     slithering switchbacks
    slinging stinging gravel

as your shotgun rider caught
rushing nightwish wind in
her out-the-downed-

window spread fingers,
and hypnotically stared

through a truck’s bug-

splattered windshield
burning an almost-midnight

summer sky’s star-map

     onto her
wondering mind’s canvas
becoming a dying supernova

–light extinguished–heat extinguished–

      yet too super hot
    to remain wispy smoke,
smoldering ashes.


 




One Response to “Interstellar Overdrive”

  1. bobbie troy says:

    Very visual! I cannot imagine how you did the layout.

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