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From Rochester to Boston with Love
The Thruway rides straight and strong
A line that traced our love
Through mountainous valleys
Like the Berkshires and brain tumors
Along the way, historic sites
A holy mount, Howe Caverns,
Montezuma Refuge,
Binghamton University,
Where you lived and loved
Nature spreads before you
With a path of asphalt down the middle
A dark clitoris lit by the light of love
Even with five-hundred miles of blinding snow
You drove your car to me
Through me
Every weekend
For two years
We were intimate
Before we even met
Not knowing each other’s faces
But knowing each other’s voices, each other’s lives
I felt your vibrations
Before you arrived
The Earth stood still on its axis
My heart, pounding
And now,
The road well-traveled
Is our life
For Always
Rebecca Housel
is a professor of writing and literature in upstate New York.
She has been published in Quiet Mountain Essays, Brevity,
Rochester Review and Redbook, among others.
Email: Rebecca Housel
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