Once, driving through a roundabout in a blizzard, I signaled right and exited into a snowbank. The windshield cracked, and the steering wheel withdrew behind an airbag. I sat like a photograph behind glass. The other side of the snowbank is an ocean. On the shore, a half-submerged rowboat with a broken oar lock. The shoreline is another country. A kingdom of seaweed.
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 25, Issue 6.
Thomas Deane Tucker is a Professor of Humanities at Chadron State College, a small rural institution located on the high plains of western Nebraska. He’s originally from Florida. Though he misses the ocean, he is glad to be free of the mosquitos, alligators, and humidity. His favorite song is “This the Sea,” by the Waterboys.
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