4:00 pm

the elk and pronghorns

trot down

highway ninety nine.

the oleanders march across

the pavement inch by

april pink and white inch.

at four o'clock

the wind comes up

tumbling an illuminated

well known plastic clown head.

caught
-on the fender of a FedEx van,

fifty seven red tissue hearts,

each inscribed with a personalized

wish written by some algorithm

on a long dead server

somewhere in the amazon:

luv ya forever, Di