Snow-blind
Knuckles white, he is driving south on snow
covered roads he hopes brings him home. Light low
causes him to be snow-blind. Center line
lost, the shoulder fades into fields. The signs
covered in ice as the north wind still blows.
Knowing traveling is risky, he slows
the wheels as headlights appear. “Don’t let go,”
he whispers. A truck’s light fills the skyline,
knuckles white.
The rush like spirits burning. His elbows
bent to pour and drink for the afterglow.
The truck’s trailer, so white, makes him snow-blind.
The sound of rumbling, wheels find the decline,
and up is now down, shot glass overflowed,
knuckles white.
Poetic Form #90: Rondeau
The rondeau form is composed of 15 lines in three stanzas with the
first word or phrase from the first line as the refrain (R). All the lines
are 8 or 10 syllables, except the refrain. The rhyme scheme is two
rhymes throughout (A and B). The poem would look like this:
A (R)
A
B
B
A
A
A
B
R
A
A
B
B
A
R
