Monthly Archive for October, 2010

This morning I thought I was running into the wind but then I turned around and learned what wind is.

Yesterday I saw a huge woman walking up the side of  SH-183 outside Lockhart. She was talking on a cell phone and walking on the highway’s solid line, ignoring the shoulder. Her shorts were clamming into her crotch and her presence caused a semi to throw itself hard to the left. She was a powerful woman.

I saw a dead dog on its side with its four legs stretched out straight like a toppled statue of a dead dog or a statue of a toppled dead dog.

The Dairy Queen in Nixon was blowing up. They were celebrating 25 years of Blizzards. I got the kind with corn syrup and ate it on the road.

Next to me in the cab was my suitcase and a grocery bag with grapefruit juice and Crystal Light and a jar of peanut butter and a plum and coffee and two loaves of bread.

I drove through Luling and Lockhart and Leesville and Karnes City and Kenedy and Tulsita and Pettus and Tuleta and Normanna and Odem and Beeville. The sun set as I drove north on Mustang Island.

Last year I sat on the beach at midnight and wondered what it might feel like to get married to the man sitting beside me. This morning I ran with the wind and then I turned around and ran against it. I still feel jealous of that woman on the highway. My only power is I can drive a long damn way.