Anne M. Doe Overstreet is a poet and editor. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in <i>Asheville Poetry Review, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, DMQ Review,</i> and <i>Cranky</
In the highway’s curve, in the swept
light that precedes the car, I am
coming home. I imagine you
safe, enfolded in the blue quilt.
I know you’ll have left a