The wipers are full-speed, / Frenetic, / Trying to do an impossible job, / Thumping / Like a runaway heartbeat.

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I'm driving fast.

It's raining.

The wipers are full-speed,

Frenetic,

Trying to do an impossible job,

Thumping

Like a runaway heartbeat.

Radio, for some reason, blaring,

I'm thinking only of, well,

I'm not thinking, just being pissed

At myself for being late.

No, for agreeing to go!

And just like that

My headlights illuminate a massive roadblock.

I jam on the brakes

Going into a long skid,

And when the car stops

I am looking into

The vegetative monstrosity

Of a fallen tree.

And what do I do?

I smile.

(Article changed on Jun 01, 2025 at 2:12 PM EDT)

Authors Website: https://garylindorff.wordpress.com

Authors Bio:

Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.


He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.