December

I want to be a passenger
in your car again
and shut my eyes
while you sit at the wheel,
awake and assured
in your own private world,
seeing all the lines
on the road ahead,
down a long stretch
of empty highway
without any other
faces in sight.
I want to be a passenger
in your car again
and put my life back
in your hands.

Michael Miller is a poet, teacher and former journalist who lives in Los Angeles. For more than a decade, he served as a writer and editor for the Los Angeles Times organization, and he founded Moon Tide Press, which has published more than 20 books of poetry to date, in 2006 with fellow poets Lee Mallory and Ricki Mandeville.

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