highway

Driving on-
toward somewhere
where it isn't cold
and girls wear their hair up
in high, tufted ponytails-
even in January.

Driving on-
toward somewhere
where fingers don't freeze to the steering wheel
and breathing is easy and painless
where scarves are non-essential accessories
casually forgotten at home.

Driving on
toward somewhere
past here
somewhere ever moving
the point on the horizon
always there-
always, always there
never here.
toward somewhere
driving on.