The I-90 corridor along southern Minnesota stretches across open prairie. Easy to drive on nice days, and a bugaboo during bad weather of any kind. Heavy rain dogged me this trip but thick fog has haunted me on more than one occasion.
Limited Visibility
Wind turbines, pale giants swallowed
by ghost clouds, spin layered vapor
floating over the plains.
Warning signs and raised crossbars
prepared to halt highway traffic
loom and recede like prairie phantoms.
Drifting snow and blizzards trigger
extended arms/alarms, but diaphanous fog,
famous for pileups, holds no leverage.
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Uninvited passengers,
a throbbing headache and white knuckles,
slide in for the ride.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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