Wooden crates stacked
to form an arch
frame a place for living.

Makeshift floor, canvas cot
and a simple table
Under a naked bulb

Safeseeming road
Winding into the hills
carrying danger

Beneath the metal bird
high hills and green valleys:
what have they hidden?

Clearings on the mountaintops,
sandbagged and tented,
high islands of life.

Concentric fissures
fracture the windshield
Nagging reminder of death.