Today's poem is by Saba Husain

Texas Tag
       

On the road to Katy, on a highway stretched
like a Cajun song, the generosity of the sun
amplifies virgin fields where grazing cows
set idyllic tones for suburban outposts of stone
columned entrances and water-front dreams.

The light, always the light, shifting over a green
layout of an American cosmos; trace and repeat
master plan coveted cul-de-sac Fourth-of-July
streets, mother, father, high school team,
mailbox, bus stop, crispy treats, a dinner
of desiccated mash and meat,

a nest unraveling in an old oak tree,
accordion unfolding,
one hand on wheel, flicker of speed,
halcyon cloud-shadows
on an open field— and the toll.

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Copyright © 2024 Saba Husain All rights reserved
from Elegy for My Tongue
Terrapin Books
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission