Jennifer Gibbons

Interstate 680 Adoration Poem

I remember you were driving me home
and you were talking, and as you talked
you looked at me, then looked at the road,
and I was looking at you, and I remember
how alone I felt with you, how you curved
your car on the hill, and I could see BART,
and the other cars on the road,
but I just remember how it only felt it was the
two of us in the world, and I remember just looking at
you as you talked, as we looked at each other
and I was hoping that you would miss the exit to my
house
that you would keep driving
to Benicia, Sacramento, LA
all I wanted was to stay in that car with you
I still wanted that aloneness with you.
As you kept on driving
as we kept on looking at each other
as the other cars passed us by.

 

Jennifer Gibbons has been published in Electric Acorn, Blue Collar Press, and The Blue Review. She lives in California.

 

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