March 2016
Dorianne Laux
dlaux1@gmail.com
In 1999 there were mysterious billboards popping up around L.A. that would feature a few lines from a poem.  No one knew who was choosing them or buying up the billboard space, which must have been expensive.  Some rich poetry-loving donor? One day, a friend of mine was driving along and looked up to see the final two lines of this poem on a billboard near La Brea & 3rd.  He took a photo and sent it to me, though I lost it long ago.  Please visit me at   http://doriannelaux.net


​​Enough Music 

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Sometimes, when we're on a long drive,
and we've talked enough and listened
to enough music and stopped twice,
once to eat, once to see the view,
we fall into this rhythm of silence.
It swings back and forth between us
like a rope over a lake.
Maybe it's what we don't say
that saves us.
-reprinted from American Life in Poetry 569
©2016 Dorianne Laux