STORMING TOWARD A PRECIPICE - Arthur Guiterman Poems

 
 

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STORMING TOWARD A PRECIPICE

A diesel freight truck
roars toward us.
A precipice is no mirage
for its metal plunge.
It is headlong nevertheless.
"It carries its own storm,"
I say dryly, feeling
my tongue wet my lips.
Trapped steel storming,
the faint line just so,
                  just inches
                  just split time,
                  just nothing more
than luck keeps us alive.
The mirage of metal storming
is a precipice, no mirage.


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