I never quite know when my daily poetry-reading practice and my work in transportation will overlap. They do more often than you might think, as with this poem by Maya Stein, "The Sting."
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Reread a poem this morning that I included in one of my transportation poetry round-ups (http://bikestylespokane.com/2024/02/17/how-we-get-where-were-going-transportation-poems/).

“The News in Southwest Minnesota” by Marianne Murphy Zarzana

"The victim, following the rules of the road, still unsafe, vulnerable.
The intersection, unconsciously aiding and abetting fatal collisions."

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/07/marianne-murphy-zarzana-news-in.html

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A painful true poem about the history of transportation projects, "The Facts of Art" by Natalie Diaz.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56354/the-facts-of-art

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My March writings over the years that have held up, mostly. Lots about bicycling, not all.

https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2024/03/reruns-march-posts-worth-revisiting.html

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I've rounded up more poems on transportation: http://bikestylespokane.com/2024/02/17/how-we-get-where-were-going-transportation-poems/.

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“Shoulders” by Naomi Shihab Nye

“A man crosses the street in rain,
stepping gently, looking two times north and south,
because his son is asleep on his shoulder.

No car must splash him.
No car drive too near to his shadow.”

https://poets.org/poem/shoulders

From a roundup of transportation-related poems. Have any I could include in my next such post? http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/03/18/safe-passage-through-countless-intersections-transportation-poetry/ #VerseThursday #poetry #transportation #TranspoPoems #trains #flying #RoadSafety #transit #walking #BikeTooter

Two blog posts with poetry for #WorldPoetryDay: poems in which bicycles appear http://bikestylespokane.com/2022/12/10/i-think-therefore-i-ride-a-bike-rack-of-bicycle-poems/ and ones with a transportation element somewhere in the poem http://bikestylespokane.com/2023/03/18/safe-passage-through-countless-intersections-transportation-poetry/.

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