Going Home

i'm on the road
at 9.
i'm on 236,
backlick,
the beltway. braddock
road,
prosperity, olley,
gallows and fifty,
lee highway.
i'm in falls church,
springfield,
annadale then down broad
street
to little falls.
Arlington.
I end up on 7,
down to glebe,
to shirlington,
I swing by Carlyle,
then 7 again to 395,
past duke, past seminary,
past edsall.
finally
I near home, exhausted
at the wheel. onto keene
mill,
past St. Bernadette's,
then right
onto tiverton, one more
turn and i'm
home.