LOVE AND PASSION IN POETRY #2

I love this poem. It is so Grown Woman.

Harryette Mullen

ROADMAP

for J. R.

She wants a man she can just

unfold when she needs him

then fold him up again

like those 50 cent raincoats

women carry in their purses

in case they get caught in stormy weather.

This one has her thumb out

for a man who's going her way.

She'll hitch with him awhile,

let him take her down the road

for a piece.

But I want to take you where you're going.

I'm unfolding for you

like a roadmap you can never again fold up

exactly the same as before.