Wednesday, September 26, 2007

81. WHEREVER WE TRAVEL

From the Archives

(April 2005) Here's a poem from today's Writer's Almanac.

WHEREVER WE TRAVEL
by Linda Pastan

Wherever we travel
it seems to take the same
few hours to get there.

The plane rises over clouds
into an unmarked sky,
comes down through clouds

to what we have to believe
is a different place. But here
are the same green road signs

the numbered highways
of home, with cars going
back and forth to houses

with chimneys and windows
identical to the ones we thought
we had left behind.

The radio blares familiar
radio music. Soon we will knock
on a door and someone will greet us,

will pull us into a room
we have never seen
but already know by heart.

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