April 2

National Poetry Month’s Poem-A-Day 30-Day Challenge: Day 2


WINDSHIELD

I think that I see you clearly

marooned in a huddle

beside the road,

cocooned in a dirty overcoat

with its edge in a puddle,

breath blasts in the frosty air

telegraphing what life is still there,

the little that I can see from where

I sit in my Aniline leather seat

awash in the wrap of the heater’s blast

and the reflecting prism of the shatterproof glass.