Poet’s Showcase
Something about a Dirt Road
By Larry Rochelle
you’ll believe
in seatbelts riding down the slope
off Osawatomie hill.
the dust alone can choke
a coyote, and drivers in pick-me-ups
learn to harness up and let the ruts bounce
them around.
you won’t hit your
head too hard and the dust will settle,
leaving you a view of cornfields
overlapped by white-washed
fog, gently
lifting
now, the face
of spring morn waiting
to be kissed.
– Larry Rochelle is a Johnson County Community College English professor.