Kansas Blacktop
we drive home at midnight fireflies glow on the windshield open windows spool perfume the roadside farm’s harvested hay again and again solitary toads cross the way of our headlights when we walk to the mailbox at noon heat waffles we come upon them still toads pressed like parchment to the blacktop we squat in the sunlight reading missives from distant hands
Diane Hueter is a Seattle native now living in Lubbock, Texas—a quiet and subtle landscape. Her poetry has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, Nelle, SWWIM, Inlandia: Librarians and Libraries Themed Issue, and work forthcoming in an anthology on women and place in the American Southwest. Her book After the Tornado appeared in 2013. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
