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Night Driving by Maura Dooley

Taken from Sound Barrier published by Bloodaxe Books

Across the Pennines maybe, at first frost,
when your headlamps made milky the way ahead,

or approaching Toronto at 4.00 a.m.
when stars lie scattered on the still lake,

driving fast, the windows pulled down,
to let the night winds steady your hands

you're tuned into strange stations
playing old hits you wish you didn't know.

Turning a dial fills the air with static:
oceans, the blueness of night

and you own the road, the country.
The radio speaks only to you.

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