God, Trucks, and Cars
Jeanie Sanders
July 7, 2024
The sign said, God, Trucks, and Cars.
I visualize God hiking up his long white robes
and taking a test drive down Military Highway.
Can he be trusted with the keys I wonder?
Will he bring the truck back without a dint
or scratch. Earth speed must mean nothing
to a God that can call the Universe to order
every day as he checks on his creations.
Cruising down the crowded highway God goes.
People taking him for just another old gray-haired
guy in his truck. Nothing special really.
But, to God the feel of the wheel is enticing.
The power to quickly move left and right.
The freedom to just be yourself for a while.
The Milky Way has nothing on this God thinks
as he drag races into the night.
Jeanie Sanders is a poet and collage artist. She lives in Lytle, Texas. Her poems have been published in The Texas Observer, San Antonio Express-News, Texas Poetry Calendar, Passager, La Voz de Esperanza, and several anthologies. She has two books of poetry, “The Book of the Dead” Poems and Photographs and “The Dispossessed.”