Morning drive, October 2019 By Alex Z. Salinas

I’m calling in this poem

Inventing on the fly

Hoodie-clad Asian woman

Speed-walks down Fredericksburg 

Black-eyed Pea doors boarded up

Black man in white Navigator cuts me off

Daycare’s “Dream Fence” breeds future vandalists  

Red rock leaning on oak tree looks like a

GIANT FROG

I’ve been cut off again,

This time by a “Family of 6” rear-window sticker

Motorcycle cop catches blue Mustang 

Husky girl chases yellow school bus 

One of these events happened yesterday 

Another I invented on the fly

I’ll let you decide

Images, baby, images

Creation in stop-motion

God’s green Earth

Beautiful, treacherous people—

Good is when you don’t realize

You’re reading 

An otherwise 

Blank page 

Alex Z. Salinas lives in San Antonio, Texas. His full-length poetry collection, WARBLES, will be released by Hekate Publishing in fall 2019.