WESTERN MOTEL, 1957

—from an Edward Hopper painting

A green Ford hugs the driveway. 

Adobe walls collect warmth from the sun.
Inside, the waiting woman’s maroon dress

vibrates, sunlight divides the room into shadow,

and sand scatters across the vast dunes 

in random patterns.

1983

No idea when, in my Napa Poetry Conference journal. Probably written in class. added 2020