The Road Ahead

WordCrafters Prompt:  The Road Ahead

It's raining on the highway outside Winnie, Texas

Cows are chewing their way to the shade outside Brenham

Stephen F. Austin is staring across 288 to the prairies,

All the way to the Brazos. 

Tires hiss and whisper, picking up the gossip of the semis

Long berthed in the bays behind Joske's and Foley's.

I'm staring at the grass; listening to a/c and the hum

Motion in my eyes.

Roads lie fallow in the dreaming afterward

Waiting for the grass to split their old skins