Highway

By Alina Sayre

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If it is good, it is God.

Yellow puffs of roadside oxalis,
bright angular graffiti.

Sailboats,
white triangles drifting
on a blue bay.

Highway drivers--
beards, wrinkles, eyeliner, earbuds--
a pit bull smearing his nose on a back window.

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Alina Sayre is the award-winning author of five books and a graduate student of theopoetics at Bethany Theological Seminary. You can learn more about her work here. 

Alina's other work on Foreshadow:

• Keeping Vigil (Poetry, March 2022)
• Vocation as a Gift (Interview, March 2022)
• Sleepwalker (Poetry, April 2022)​