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          what doom

on the road that loves America
I set a wildfire in my mind
forest torches blooming
booming cracks to the plate
of manifest destiny

coasting beside the white whale
seas of my youth
I am the acid man,
the captain drilling down death
on a cruel harpoon

no car but mine –
gone ice caps and beat
sweet immigrants picking dust,
a thousand-year storm born
of our temerity

sloped sideways the road –
coyote reflects our
fire-crazed eyes
and turns back, crying –
what doom


© 2012 by Beth Stevens