Singing Bridge

Posted by poetrl in Poems - Uplifting on 25-11-13

Kentucky River, Frankfort, KY

The pickup truck’s Goodyears
are twanging a steel-pedal
song, all love-loss and blues,
and the ’67 Impala with the retired
guy and his wife riding shotgun
hums out it’s Good Vibrations.

Farm trucks full with hay
and trailers with cattle
contribute their own middle C’s
while the occasional semi joins
in with a rich, bottom bass.
Along the walkway, I stop

and watch the Kentucky river bend
into a treble clef, an inch deep,
a quarter-mile wide, and listen
to the thrum and throb of every
passing car, wondering why
this poem seems so out of tune.

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