Wander Wonder

(Courtesy www.in.gov)

How many license plates have you seen in your lifetime? Really looked at? Thought about? Written a poem about? That's what separates you and me (or at least me) from the next couple of poets in our series.

"Wander" by James Schevill

1984 Indiana
licence plates
   say
WANDER
   proudly
as if American wandering
   is a
   spiritual
   surge,
     a curse
     or crossing
       into
         invisible
          eternity

(According to the Indiana BMV, the Wander plate was issued from 1984-86. The number issued in 1984: 4,388,881.)