Road

We just needed a change of scenery
from the way winter had ground down around our neighborhood.
Sure, it's the same anywhere
everywhere winter seems long this time of year,
the February hurrah of snow and cold.
We got outta town, steering wheel twitching with the rumpled road.
Look out the window at winter.
Here, there, where we were. Where we're going.
I'd had the flu already, the one that comes around
when people are cold and tired every year.
It was time to move out of the daily radius
of home to car to work to home.
Leave all that behind us for a weekend.
Put a smile on things, anyway.