a line of paired lights
stares into me, through me.
Kelly-green mountains,
newly clad, press
on either side.
A tunnel through life,
a tunnel of life, this lost
highway leads home
or away from home,
north or south,
to mountains or flatlands,
depending on
which way
you go.
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Senior associate director of the Institute for the Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Tony Reevy is a graduate of North Carolina State University, UNC-Chapel Hill and Miami University. He is a David P. Morgan Award winner (2006) and a Pushcart Prize nominee. His previous publications include poetry, non-fiction and short fiction, including the non-fiction book Ghost Train!, and the poetry chapbooks Green Cove Stop, Magdalena, Lightning in Wartime, and In Mountain Lion Country. His latest non-fiction book, O. Winston Link: Life Along the Line, is pending publication from Abrams Books in fall 2012. He resides in Durham, North Carolina with wife, Caroline Weaver, and children Lindley and Ian.
