Making rounds follows
The highways 
Of persons; turnoffs,
Overpasses, structural
Modifications,

The wind whistling
Down the gut
With no one listening
Despite contractions tinkling
And crackling from the

Heat of molecules
Jostling in
Some way called alive
And in another way dead,
As having driven

Into new country. 





In: Journal of Pastoral Care vol. 41, 1987.
Reprinted in Group Practice Journal copyright 1987, 
American Medical Group Association (AMGA).