Cruising the Bluebonnets

Gary S. Rosin

June 9, 2024

Out in your red sports car,
you cruise with the top down,
a Chuy's baseball cap
pulled down over your eyes
against the April sun.

You take Farm-to-Market
highways, without shoulders,
across the Hill Country,
try to take each curve at
twice the suggested speed.

Bluebonnets and paintbrush
start to spread across fields,
pose for the annual
bluebonnet photographs—
you and your girl, smiling.

Then it’s on to the next
curve, the wind in her hair,
the sun already low,
as you and Joe Ely
sing “Lord of the Highway.”

Gary S. Rosin’s work has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and “Best of the Net,” and has appeared, or is forthcoming, in MacQueen’s Quinterly, The Ekphrastic Review, Texas Seniors (Lamar Literary Press), and elsewhere. He has two chapbooks, Standing Inside the Web (Bear House Publishing), and Fire and Shadows (Legal Studies Forum).