MaryAnn Bennett Rosberg Chicago, IL email Hear an audio version of this piece can't hear it? Music: Renee Henry - harp, voice Robert Reiser - guitar Ralph Baldwin - harmonica Betsy Bevan - dumbek Scott Fray - bass guitar Rain takes the highway Semi’s sail past waving out the two half suns on our windshield. There is no highway ending in sky only the wet low way with side views of milk mud paths wading to moated kingdoms tied by knotted ropes of green where fields used to be. Our sea fans clear the seaview And we car rock in our row when a semi storms by. Where is the highroad? There’s only a water way, too fluid for form. We breathe easy only when we see A lone hawk swimming sky, but rain pawprints our glass shield and we flow away again.

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