Freeway Heart Diary 2014

 

1. January bougainvillea drapes

    Over freeway wall,

    Foliage shapes like sacred heart

    Cantilevered with thorns

 

2. Saint Valentine's vine

   Adorns Gower tracks,

   Anoints bright air

   With crimson bracts

3. Drought's heart--aquifer of spirit--

    Infuses commuters with sustenance:

    Droplets of hot color

    On tongues, on eyes

4. Fool's Day Heart busts abutment,

    Circulates cerise,

    Ventricles spill beauty into carpool,

    This ticker's no joke

 

5. Spring's middleman pumps

    Inversion through twiggy valve,

    Rush-hour particulate

    Fills lanes and veins

 

6. June gloom enwraps bloom,

    Dims magenta flare

    Crestin' gray junction

 --atria poke pale airs--

 

7. Cardiac burst--strontium boom--

    Dazzle under daytime moon

    Puce facets windshields,

     Eliminates blind-spots

 

8. A plastic bag summers

    In scarlet auricle,

    Tote of purchase-past motes brambles,

    Palpitates for big-rigs!

9. Heart-lobes mime thunderheads,

    Pinion chain-link strait

    Thorns suspend rubescent curves

    Above paved artery

10. Full heart of high color

      Piqued by rain,

      Levitates 'bove steel-rides in slow lane,

      Wet road reflects brake-light borealis

11. Great heart of many hearts,

     Red bracts fade, shift pink, crinkle tan,

     Cast blessings upon

     All graded ascents

 

12. In desert solstice,

      Brumal heart radiates 

      Unveiling sunlight. Yield,

      We tread hallowed ground!

All photographs by Laura Stickney