Driving along an Iowa gravel road I am sometimes jolted wide awake as from a forever sleep, struck by the immediacy of the world

Ross, Dennis

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Westview Volume 35 Issue 1 Summer Article 16 5-1-2019 Here and Now Dennis Ross Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview  Part of the Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Photography Commons, and the Poetry Commons Recommended Citation Ross, Dennis (2019) "Here and Now," Westview: Vol. 35 : Iss. 1 , Article 16. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol35/iss1/16 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Westview by an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact phillip.fitzsimmons@swosu.edu.  65volume 35, number 164Here and NowBy Dennis RossDriving along an Iowa gravel road,I am sometimes jolted wide awake as from a forever sleep, struckby the immediacy of the world,by a purple vermillion sunsetover eight-foot corn, a raccoon with three babies clutching to her back,or a deer and two fawns transfixedin the road, staring wide-eyedat my old truck before wheelingto bound into the ditch and jumpthe tumbledown barbed wire fence.Sometimes it is a glowing white barnfreshly painted, or a field fullof roly-poly cows each with a wide white band around their black body,a bit like pandas, designed no doubt by small, giggling farm children.Even one blue iris, which Grandmacalled flags, can ring that wakening bell.

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