The
Unfamiliar Road
Ben Martin
What if I’m driving at midnight,
when I catch the ghost riding shotgun
in the blue shiver of streetlamps,
this sick vapor sitting on its nerves
like a fog spread out over January,
whose queer liquid eyes would disappear
like rain in the wrong direction,
flocking back into the clouds,
only to puddle up on some other road,
on the other side of my life?
Ben Martin recently graduated with a BA in English from Southern
Methodist University. In 2006 Ben won the Lon Tinkle Prize and his poem,
"Losing Your Page" has appeared in the department's newsletter, Erudition. He is an instructor at The Writer's Garret
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