Edward's Xing

home
by back roads
from North Columbia
in the warm mizzling April dark
Mazda floating
on headlight mists
wet gravel turns & straights-
glimpse of pine-tops
band of moonlight
over the dim pastures-
coasting the river canyons
I caught the ninth inning
a fuzzy faraway Giants game
fade out by the bridge.
Stoppt in the middle
killed the engine
leaned on the rail
lost in the huge starry beauty
of deep Yuba night