rear-view mirror*

you're driving in the rain
and the trees chase you
like ghosts
in the rear-view mirror;
the windshield wipers
keep flipping the pages
too fast
and you see things;
you see things hiding
in the mountains

the mountains
pin to the horizon;
a point of reference,
always the last thing
to be drawn in a picture;
they watch you go by;
their eyes follow
you down the highway
like a painting on the wall

you can feel them
watching

you can feel the world
watching

you feel the world
watching

you go blind



* Vacancy 3, painted by Maya Kulenovic.