Driving On a Rural Road

Driving in rural country
where roads are two-laned
and lampposts and traffic lights nonexistent,
where the moon is high in the afternoon sky
and pre-evening clouds and mountains
blend together in purpleness

where the night road and sky
are the same hue of black,
and lights like coloured diamonds
string across mountain tops

where a meteorite strikes like a match
thrown across the silent sky
and the feeling is that you are not in a vehicle
but flying in the blackness
on your own wings

in your own dreams