12-27-17
Left North Bend at nine.
SD card didn’t work,
prepared to fight the past
if it should appear.
22 minutes to North 405,
Bellevue is slow even when the roads are clear.
I forgot it's Wednesday and people are working,
only going because I am expected
I won’t remember it anyway.
9:42 took the exit for I-5 North,
snow flies off the cars’ roofs.
Baker hidden in the clouds has snow
on its roof as well.
Across the slough the mountains
are flocked with snowy trees
and geese.
I have to sing to the river as I pass,
it’s tradition, so I do
to the biggest eagle I’ve seen
at Starbird road, appropriately.
I forgot about the birds up here.
Stopped to pee, 10:39.
My needed landmarks remain.
The road is bare but the shaded stone is
sheeted with ice.
Out of the floodplain, I rose to
Deception Pass
hidden in a forest of ferns.
A sea interlude.
It both was and wasn’t
what I’d thought.
3:06 driving out, sun behind me,
the only break in the clouds.
Don’t want to crawl back to the highway,
but at 3:49 I do.
