by LB Sedlacek

I keep getting behind the wheel
in black and white, sometimes
color and this time I am not
late and there is no one in
the road, walking to work,
walking to nowhere.

I am in the lane, not swerving,
not so close that I don’t
have time to brake. My hands
are agile. I am a driving course
expert. My daily drive restored.

The collision never comes. There
is no blood on the wheels. My
brow is not furrowed. My mind
doesn’t race thinking “Oh no,
what’s he doing in front of my car?”

My day is returned to the mundane.
I don’t spend half an hour
in the rain waiting for help to
come. My feet stay dry. I
never get out of my car.