Julie Weiss 1 Poem

HOW YOU SAVED MY LIFE
                            For Prince

You probably don´t realize
the number of times you´ve saved my life.

By save I mean from certain death,
a dark road slithering through the mountains

as if fleeing a predator, sleep trampling
my eyelids, hands on the steering wheel

more shadow than substance. As my car rounded
a curve, you crossed the bridge of Let´s Go Crazy,

trilling me out of slumber, and...