You Are My GPS by Linda Radice

You Are My GPS
by
Linda Radice

If I fell into Robert Frost's poem,

it wouldn't matter which road I took,

I'd get lost anyway.

I would call you to confess that

I'd daydreamed past street signs,

forgot to count the stop lights, and

now the road is as unfamiliar to me

as the poetry at my destination is to you.

You'd ask what I see out the window,

then tell me to go up two blocks, or turn

around and go back six where there will

be a red brick church across from a diner

at the intersection that will take me where

I need to go. You always know exactly

where I am — Mission Control to this

perpetually off-course satellite — who

will return to find you asleep in the light

of the muted TV, the cat curled on your

chest, his head at your chin, your

hand on the phone beside you —

waiting to talk me home.

This poem first appeared in Exit 13 Magazine.
Copyright by Linda Radice 2007.
Used with the author's permission.

Linda Radice (1952 - 2017) was a poet and essayist, who kept her day job--she was a paralegal for more than 30 years--to feed her obsession with books and writing. Her work appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, and she was a finalist for the Allen Ginsberg Award for three consecutive years. Linda lived in North Plainfield, New Jersey, the town she grew up in, with her husband and a cat named Shakespeare.

nancilee:
A delightful love story. I love the poem.
Posted 01/18/2015 04:59 PM

laurasalas:
Love this! If I could write the perfect love poem to my husband, this would be it. It's going in his lunchbox tomorrow:>)
Posted 01/18/2015 09:40 AM

barbsteff:
Love the first three lines of this poem, and the whole story. I'm one of the people who has an inner GPS, but I have friends who have no idea where they are. Very satisfying poem.
Posted 01/17/2015 11:12 PM

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