Love song to my GPS
You take me
where I want
to go,
sweet voice
directing
every turn.
You even say
when to go fast
or slow
and don’t get upset
when I spurn
your advice.
You merely adjust
the route, find
another way
to keep us
from getting
lost,
purring along
to the satisfaction
of getting there
together.
….
This poem is from the chapbook Carbon Footprint by Eric Chiles (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/carbon-footprint-by-eric-chiles/
After a career as a newspaper editor, Eric Chiles began teaching writing and journalism at colleges in eastern Pennsylvania. He is the author of What Was and Will Be(Resource Publications, 2024) and the chapbook Caught in Between (Desert Willow Press, 2019). His poetry has appeared in 3Elements Review, Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, Pembroke Magazine, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, and elsewhere. In 2014 He completed a 10-year section hike of the Appalachian Trail.
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