scenic drive

[On a leisurely drive to the Taylor Park Reservoir, Colorado, July 2009]

nostalgic

It’s a kitchen. Its curtains fill

with a morning light so bright

you can’t see beyond its windows

into the afternoon. A kitchen

falling through time with its things

in their places, the dishes jingling

up in the cupboard, the bucket

of drinking water rippled as if

a truck had just gone past, but that truck

was thirty years. No one’s at home

in this room…

[a room in the past by ted kooser, appalachian culture museum in boone, NC, may 2009]