Our Road

Sometimes we just pull over on the side 

to watch birds

or waves.


Here each cow has a name, 

like Petey

or Stripey.

We clutch our cups of coffee,

eat strawberries and apples 

and talk about puma sightings 

in the hills.

And when there’s a baby 

or cancer 

we cook for each other.

-Wallace J. Nichols