Jeffrey Heath

I Keep Thinking About Colorado

The drive out past Denver,
turning the dial
until static softened
into song.

The mountains rose
slowly as if
they didn’t want
to startle us
& we took pictures
everywhere, proof
we were once looking
in the same direction.

Pulled over way too often—
Blue columbine
along the shoulder,
Milky Way slung
over sand dunes,
signs for trailheads
we’d never hike again.

That was before the silence
began sounding
like comfort;
before your hand
stopped reaching
for mine.

I keep thinking about Colorado.
How, for a time,
we thought
we would never
run out of road,
as if forward
were enough
to carry us
home.

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Jeffrey Heath formerly lived as a cat stalking the shores of South Florida. His work has appeared in Eunoia Review, Sky Island Journal, Third Wednesday Magazine, Pictura Journal, wildscape. Literary Journal, and Neologism Poetry Journal, among others. His latest book, Entropy Loop & Other Poems was published in 2025. He is the founding editor of January House Literary Journal. Jeffrey currently lives in Memphis, TN.