_     _Why not leave small offerings
on rural routes for the mystics
at the D.O.T.
_     _ _   _ _     _ _   _ _     _ _   _ who in their cabalistic
wisdom make a sign
_     __     __     _mean less the more
of them you pass.

_     _There’s peril in
_     __     __     _the arrow, in its angle—up
and to the left.

_     _A man might come from
a strange country, to travel
in the night.
_     __     __     __     __     __     _An animal
might publish its uncertainty
in the median.

_     _I want not to take literally
all indications, nor seek
secret shortcuts to
_     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     _a private drive.

_     _I am off the map.
A wayward vector, the metaphor
of S—as in here
_     __     __     __     __     __     _go slow awhile,
or next 2 miles, soft
_     __     __     __     __     __     __     __     _ _ _ shoulder.