Still Water
Prose Poems
Copyright @ 1989 by Arthur Garfunkel
ISBN 0-525-24795-5
Used by persmission of Author - All Rights Reserved
8
The mountain road curves left.
I stop on the
outside two-foot
shoulder, looking down.
The motorcycle is heavy.
Getting ready
to continue, I
bend to my mirror to see if
my helmetless hair is unruly—
But I must
bend down to time
.and follow
further down the
.crown my
forehead makes at
the top of
the round rear mirror.
Alpine
roadSeptember 1983