The Whole World Is Gone by Jennifer Grotz - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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Driving alone at night, the world’s pitch, black velvet stapled occasionally by red tail lights on the opposite highway but otherwise mild panic when the eyes’ habitual check produces nothing at all in the rearview mirror, a black blank, now nothing exists but the dotted white lines of the road,

The Whole World Is Gone Add to anthology × Jennifer Grotz Driving alone at night, the world’s pitch, black velvet stapled occasionally by red tail lights on the opposite highway but otherwise mild panic when the eyes’ habitual check produces nothing at all in the rearview mirror, a black blank, now nothing exists but the dotted white lines of the road, and the car scissors the blackness open like the mind’s path through confusion, but still no clarity, no arrival, only Pennsylvania darkness, rocks, cliffs, vistas by day that thicken to black. It’s sensual, though, too, and interestingly

The Whole World Is Gone by Jennifer Grotz - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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