Traffic + Travel

I’m afraid there’s been an accident,
It’s taking up three lanes
And cars heading north are having to
Follow a diversion.
It’s also rather slow south-bound as people
Are stopping to see what’s happened
So obviously that’s slowing everything up.
Traffic and

Travelling away from you is like
Pulling an elastic band backwards
All of that spring waiting for the release
To get close again, all of me getting
Taut and overstretched, whelmed over by
Magnets, the

Force of the crash was heavy as the car
Collided with a lorry head-on and there were
No

Survivors of the same place we’re like
That, you said, and I nodded. And you put
Your lips on mine and held them there.
And when I get near your door there is a
Knocking

Over of part of the central reservation; work is now
Being done to restore this rupture and the emergency
Services are asking for patience.