A comprehensive glance at the narcotic terror of sleep-deprived motor transport, and a loving portrait of a driver?s bravery and the trusting surrender of his co-captain.

An experiment in scale and comparison. The universe contracts into a face and person, caresses familiar features, then withdraws to the end of time.

The poet excavates menacing subplots from within the skin of the obvious and inanimate. She equates explosions with coincidences, jaywalking through all kinds of syncronous intersections, as when ?exhaustion makes the two lovers drop everything / at the same time the crickets stopped chirping?.