Sometimes the most ordinary things stand out in the day: someone waves, an eagle soars, I plant ferns, a friend calls … and then there are encounters while driving …
A DUMP TRUCK
fully loaded 
waits to turn left
off the highway
we’re stopped
at the stop sign
longer than usual
watch business traffic
hurtle past
until a pause
and the behemoth lurches
into movement
arcs our car wide
belches black exhaust
into thin green air
blasts us
with dust and gravel
first published by Long Story Short
A Summer Father … poems as deceptively simple and cunning as a sniper’s bullet. This book is a Remembrance Day poppy. Dave Margoshes
