a cloud of dust

 

I watched as you drove down the dirt road

in a cloud of dust

swallowing you until you vanished

 

you said you will return to me

 

will you

 

do you promise

 

tomorrow I will look down the dirt road

for a small speck on the horizon

that grows until the close perspective

allows your face to fill the entire frame of my mind

 

you have returned

 

you have come back

 

if only in my imagination