Renga: ON THE ROAD

(senryu)            
           
Los Angeles, California            
     In deep cleft            
     subtle licks bring white flows          
     Azusa wild fire            
           
Needles, California            
     long straight and hard            
     I drive and drive into your heat            
     Mojave's sweaty ride            
           
Flagstaff, Arizona            
    trapped in cotton            
    snake seeking to uncoil            
    boxer rebellion            
           
Gallop, New Mexico            
    viper ready to spit            
    charmer girl stops mid thrust            
    slow damn wi-fi            
           
Little Rock, Arkansas            
    wet in Arkansas              
    cell phone talk of chowders            
    can't wait to eat her clam            
         
Canton, Georgia          
     Walmart stop          
     sale on Kopi Luwak coffee        
     mmmm tastes like cat shit        
         
Athens, Georgia          
     hipster heaven        
     India short shorts and June sun        
     Oh what rosy cheeks        
         
Chattanooga, Tennessee          
     Smokey ridges        
     thinking of you, down south        
     sign reads "eat messy"        
         
Fort Smith, Arkansas          
      loving southern names        
      want to go there with you        
      Bushy Lake, Toad Suck Park        
       
Arkansas/Oklahoma border      
     Oklahoma sundown        
     misty folds of peach and plum    
     longing for your warm wet      
              
Henryetta, Oklahoma        
     train horns sing the night      
     alone, your poems ignite me      
     don't fret, I handled it        
 
Holbrook, Arizona  
     gully washing rain  
     pushing through arroyo floods  
     love how your butte looks  
 
           
(more to follow)