Entire Life of Hitchhiking

Kade Krokosinski, Poetry, Vol 2 Issue 1

Posted: January 30th, 2009 Track comments on this item via RSS

Entire Life Of Hitchhiking

Cedar trees covered in snow

The clean light of winter

A car on the road

the way slick oil paints are collisions

of quick sand on canvas

far beyond the great Canadian wilderness

where forest and mountains

fill electrical wire noise

Remembering to dismiss all thoughts

and memories under clean bone marrow

of baby deer and forgotten elk fur

There is only room to look out the window

The Entire Life of Hitchhiking

There Is No Effective Way To Stay Awake

Knowing every raindrop by name

the way west coast clouds grew

like headaches

they stayed the same throughout the night

the pulse was a ticking clock

calculating the seconds in time

Dreaming through open eyelids

the wipers stood up and lay down

across a windshield

without any effect at all

she could not see the lines

on the road

or anything about the weather

there is no effective way to stay awake

Kade Krokosinski is a twenty-year old student living in Victoria who was born in Calgary, Alberta. She has traveled extensively, including two years teaching English in Japan. She is a photographer and writer and lists some of her inspirations as Ezra Pound, e.e. Cummings, her mother, religion, and the alphabet.

Published January 2009

4 Responses to “Entire Life of Hitchhiking”

  1. Kade Krokosinski Says:

    (for photographs and further readings of recent works: alphabetgames.blogspot.com)

  2. Kathy,Reggie & HRH Marigold >^..^ Says:

    Kade,

    It’s beautiful. Like you.

  3. wanda Says:

    Wonderful!

  4. john Says:

    its better than hitch hikers guide to galaxy and specially liked ref to road kill (clean bone marrow)- osso bucco for the canuk winter … suck it dry

    love dad

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