Momentarily Lost in New Mexico

Momentarily Lost in New Mexico

 

We flew laughing

down a thousand miles of highway

slicing cities, deserts, and mountain ranges neatly in two

then watching them close seamlessly behind us

again and again.

 

Slept in the cab of your pickup

crushed against the doors, the gearshift, each other

Until discomfort and the sunrise

woke me to a day

that begged the rememberance of innocence

 

Like white-cotton t-shirts stretched across

warm, sun-brown skin

and the smell of mud-pies we baked in your back yard

decorated with tiny yellow flowers, weeds

from the empty lot next door.

 

Wincing, I shook the blood back into my legs

gathered my toothbrush, backpack

and made my way to another rest-stop bathroom

wondering once again

exactly where I was.

-c. bottlecappie

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another one from the vaults. hope you enjoy it.