Each week, the Standard reaches out to Austin’s Typewriter Rodeo for a custom poem on Texas topics.
Pixabay
Summer reading list
A diner menu, a flashing “Open” sign
“No swimming” carved into wood,
too hot to comply
Three trail maps
Thirty road signs
Each alphabet letter
before the license plate blurs by
48 ice cream flavors,
the way the river bends
a postcard from a faraway friend or
lover, or lover/friend?
and maybe
a book
if there’s time.
Typewriter Rodeo airs each Friday on Texas Standard. Send us your ideas for a poem on Facebook, Twitter, or send us an email.
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