RV Poetry

Front Row Seats

Wheels turn,
spaces inside confine
until eyes cast from self
to world outside windshield.

Thoughts contained within
mix with sensory input
from roadside towns:
the occasional car
filled with laughing people,
orange blossoms
and charcoal filling stale air,
the tramp art
displayed from roofless structures,
the tattered shirts
hung on jury rigged clotheslines,
the fifteenth coffee shop
in six miles,
children at crosswalks
backpacks weighing more
than their own bones,
an elderly couple holding hands,
a thirty year old woman
screaming
at her man as their children
cower in the background,
a cross at roadside
with faded plastic flowers,
a young woman walking into an office
her head held high
her eyes taking in
all around her,
a mother and father
counting to three and lifting
their toddler high above ground
his face bringing light into
everything that surrounds him

How can people mistake RVing
for escape when their unguarded
senses take in all that is around them?

I think it may be the opposite,
RVers have both front row seats
with full view windows of life
and time to absorb them.

MeeAugraphie
11/09/07

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But, our dream of RVing is very much alive. We made it to Florida, Leon is in class to prepare for his exam for his new career, and we only shipped 450 lbs of stuff down here. Of course, that does not count all we stuffed in and above our Santa Fe… Wonder how many lbs that was?

Of course, since the things we shipped won’t be here until Monday, we had to buy a few things to survive – and borrow a few, so that is more lbs, but much of that won’t be in the RV – or will it? I have no clue yet how many lbs will fit, especially since we have not even made a decision on which one we want…

I’m already attached to our little apartment in Pompano Beach – and it does have a bit more room than an RV, but come next summer, we will be ready to find our RV, I think, though finding the appropriate place to set it up to live in next winter may be a bit difficult down here in South Florida. I have not seen or read of that many RV resorts/parks/whatevers in the area near the office.  But then, who knows what we will discover next spring when we start looking.

Why, if the business went well, we could have a small place here and in WA and then make do with a smaller RV, right?

All I know for sure, change and adventure have started, the RV is now less a dream and more a possibility, and being close to family again is great, though I miss WA, but we will be back there in the summer. Thank goodness, heat and I do not get along!

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