Marc Beaudin
100 Highways (Larus occidentalis)
Mornings on the balcony overlooking
Monterey Bay with a paper cup
of bad hotel coffee & the shrieks
of gulls from the rooftops
telling the world to wake up
before this moment is gone
forever & the cypress trees
lining the park twisted
into dervish shapes dancing
wild but at a pace of decades
between each beat
sounded by the sea
It's always this music that calls &
it only took me a hundred highways
(this time) to get here
Bio
Marc Beaudin is a poet, theatre artist and bookseller from Livingston, Montana. His work has been anthologized in We Take Our Stand (edited by Rick Bass), Poems Across the Big Sky II, Awake in the World, vol. 2, and is forthcoming in anthologies by Raven Chronicles and Alternating Current. His latest book, Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals, was called "a jazzy, freewheeling, rollicking road trip into the beating heart of the Eternal Now" by Montana Quarterly. He believes the Brahms' Violin Concerto in D is more powerful than all the guns, smokestacks and coal trains in the world.