Road kill

Road kill

Staggered like a clipped buck from a fender

The windshield of the driver liable but eschewing trivial concern

At the lack of iterations of crackle quake fault lines across

Vehicular visors to extend progress across midnight road travel

Without inhibition for the permission to allocate concern

Like a prerequisite to continue contemplation of grocery lists

Legal retainer fees and all the idiosyncratic routines

Of traveling on to Nantahala and Blue Ridge views

Of all the collateral damage the movement imbues

At seventy and headlights dimmed coming up fast

With out warning or caution or direct indication of lawful

Attention to procedural codification of Robert’s rules

For the fundamental right of deliberative assembly to require

All questions to be thoroughly discussed before taking action

Deportment lacking and the points of privilege stacking

In a single direction to divide the question to lay the table

Without consideration that the contrapuntal could address a rebuttal

From the key witness to the scene, all of the limit debate immediate

Has become the routine

Hind leg in tatters, limping concussed and none of it matters

The forest is blurred and the in roads of the boreal bosk blurs

Into a blood pressured memory of a flash at the helm ready

To sprint off and meditate on the civility of a death alone under shrubbery