The Road

24 hours alone with myself the road goes on and on 24 hours in my own space exemption rides along 24 hours eternity breached its imagery returns 24 hours tomorrow today whose light forever burns 24 hours becoming undone the parts fall back in place 24 hours the wind at my back withdrawing from the race 24 hours a voice calls my name in birth year reverie 24 hours my soul to reclaim in what was meant to be 24 hours Kerouac damned a false reflection shown 24 hours each road sign that calls direction out on loan 24 hours the moment reframed once lost but now refound 24 hours 24 lifetimes —inward outward bound (Dreamsleep: June, 2023)