Highway 66

A short poem

Ray Harvey
The Junction
Published in
Sep 2, 2021

Thin blue highway hugging the soft edge of night,
along this strange western town burning
with apricot light
like a necklace laid across the swell
of grass over some vast New Mexican plain,
it fills me with a yearning
I’ve never quite been able to quell,
or explain.

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Ray Harvey
The Junction

Creative director of all things delightful.