by RC DeWinter
i have no car
and i’m in desperate need
of a ride
and i’d like you
to be the one to drive me
crazy
over the edge
off the cliff
straight into the mindless abyss
of ecstasy
i want to be the hitchhiker
you pick up
on the side of the highway
that has so many names
call it what you like
i’m well beyond
shame and shyness now
all i know
is that you’re driving
the car i want to ride in
around every curve
and straight on into forever
let me slide in beside you
we’ll drive cross-country
to places neither of us has ever been
RC deWinter’s poetry is anthologized, notably in New York City Haiku, Coffin Bell Two, Winter Anthology: Healing Felines and Femmes, and Now We Heal: An Anthology of Hope. It also appears in2River, Event, Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, the minnesota review, Night Picnic Journal, Prairie Schooner, Southword, and Yellow Arrow Journal, among others, and appears in numerous online literary journals.