sliding with the traffic of trailers and trucks
through the gland lands of misty Appalachia
rolling through lush
wet curvature
the danger is getting
caught in the dance
deer clustered
on the shoulder
ready to leap
into the eyes
of sudden fire.
Mark Spitzer is the author of 27 books, mostly about big, ugly fish. His latest is Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West by the U of Nebraska Press. He is also a professor in Arkansas. More info at www.sptzr.net.
