Armadillo Road Trip
Jesse Doiron
June 4, 2023
“What’s it look like?”
“Road,” I answered.
“What kind of road?”
“Slow.”
“Ain’t highway?”
“No. Slow road is all.”
“Can we cross it safe?”
“I can.”
“Well, how about me?”
“Your leg?”
“Well, yeh.”
“Well, yeh, I guess.”
“Well you go first.”
So I started out
through dew-wet
weeds to the
blacktop, still
steaming under
low-slung sun,
when a pickup
truck hummed
suddenly up
from the dusk
with a clumsy
gooseneck trailer
rumbling along.
Jesse Doiron has worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia as an educator and consultant. His teaching experience ranges from English for international business at the UC – Berkeley Extension in San Francisco to creative writing at the Mark Stiles Maximum Security Prison for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
