STALLING OUT Just by getting enough distance the brown/black uprights of trees go purple and settle on the hills like fallen clouds. Geese return in their knife shape over harvested corn fields. WSLM plays salvation bluegrass and sells weedkiller. Cecil "Dude" Burton leads the Death Notices and Elzea Allbright comes in toward the end. The sumac lowers its heads and the crows sound like choir practice. Further on are storms, darkness, mountains-- my windshield is cracked, engine lugs, I stall out at times by the side of the highway, foot jamming the accelerator, come on dammit one more time take off and race for me I'm only halfway and night is falling.
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