Elizabeth Grace Barrows

Route 30

You live down the street from 
me, 105 miles away. I think 
of highways stretching like

arms and of you looking out 
your window, watching headlights 
come over the horizon, pairs

of lonely suns blazing through 
the darkness. I wonder if you 
trace their trails back to me and

the tail lights that passed my 
bedroom window two hours before, 
red ribbons weaving themselves into

a carpet, a velvet road that 
leads to you. I wish I could become 
light, time-elapsed into thin

lines, slicing through night and 
miles, speeding carelessly until 
I crash into your arms.

Elizabeth Grace Barrows, a 1998 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, earned a BA in Composite Writing. She contributed regularly to the school’s literary magazine, Backroads as a writer and staff member. While as a student in High School she won two PA Scholastic Writing Gold Keys in poetry. This is her first post-academic publication.

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Isaiah 61:1-3

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