ode to going (home)

Character Line Up | Jasmine Kareem-Robinson | Digital Art

 ode to going (home) by Daviana Marcus

cacophony, car windows open, sky—

I welcome wind and sun with open gaze

unsquinting in the golden winter glow.

(the sun glares in, the song pours out, and) I

taste odes upon my tongue, unfurling praise:

to car rides long and fears felt long ago;

to songs I thought I didn’t like, until

their baseline mixes in me with the sun,

unending. We press skip because we know

there’ll always be another song-- and still

more days.