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Love Sometimes Comes Screaming

Updated on March 2, 2011

Love sometimes comes screaming, eighty miles an hour

Sometimes so quiet you hardly know it’s there

So we keep one eye open just in case

The heart looking both ways before crossing the street

And still sometimes an eighteen wheeler slams into my cautious heart

And I’m barreling down the road

Heading for the state line

Plans and patterns scattering in the rush of wind


She wears a well-worn Yankees cap

Her soft curls swirling out

Escaping like the press of her boot on the pedal

She turns and her eyes blue and ancient as the sea

Hint of laughter and secrets

She talks of the road and the places she’s seen

Her mouth smiles, quietly remembering

Her face youthful, irrepressible

She turns and melts me with the sound of her voice

Rising and falling, a pebble in her stream

My mind tumbles and drifts with the memory

She had asked for the sugar

She said in the South, iced tea came that way

And I said I remembered

Conversation led her to move closer

And she asked a question

I didn’t know at the time but it was no ordinary question

She only asked it a few times

Once to the old man who taught her to drive and then left her his rig

She asked me now

I answered without hesitation and she became quiet

Something like elation and sadness moved across her face

She described to me then the secret room in my soul

The places I go when I sleep

She said an impossible thing

And I made a single text on my phone and left it with the tip

In the cab of the old Peterbilt we made love across Arizona, Utah and Montana

Tall pines and grand canyons

Stark, white crowned Tetons

Love sometimes comes screaming

With a smile and a moan

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