Alley.
Atlas.
Avenue.
Backroad:
The backroad switchbacks of his double helix - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with Three Moons"
We take off down the same backroads - m.s. RedCherries "the end cannot be me"
Boulevard.
Cartography:
The cartography of longing - Kendra DeColo "Seville"
Causeway:
The causeway to the upper places - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"
Channel.
Commute:
The timetables of their brief commute - Paul Bernstein "Sparrows"
Crossroad.
Crosstown:
Steering a crosstown bus is not for the faint - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Cruise:
Cruising through four octaves - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
On this dial the condor's shadow cruises - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Cruised among cold silences - Elizabeth Spires "Coelacanth"
Dead-End.
Drag.
Drive.
Exodus.
Footbridge:
A rococo footbridge hard at work holding up some dumb illusion - Brian Tierney "Catering"
Footpath:
On a footpath by the stream - Janet Kauffman "Dodder Is No Daughter"
Over footpaths of fallen petals - Phan Nhien Hao "Seattle Memory" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Go singing through the footpaths of the swamp - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Footpath creeping through the long grass to the door - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Freeway:
The non-stop roaring hum of cross-stitched freeways - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"
Two freeways meet in orgies of commerce and congestion - Jesse Nathan "Panhandle"
Freeway with exit signs to towns I've never heard of - Keith Taylor "Directions to North Fishtail Bay: No Beginning"
Highway.
Hitch-Hike:
Hitch-hike on the tailpipe of a car - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
Intersection.
Interstate:
Such lit vacancy as interstate motels announce - Scott Cairns "A Lot"
Empty interstate by starlight - Richard Jones "Rest"
Only dust and the hum of the interstate - Khaled Mattawa "Before"
Down this interstate of solitude - Joy Priest "Looking for the Beautiful Things"
Itinerary/Itinerant.
Journey.
Lane.
Orbit.
Overpass:
He's an overpass light brigade soldier - Margaret Noodin "Sometimes" transl. by the author
Path.
Pathway.
Pothole:
All bumps and potholes that could take out your wheel - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
Rail/Railroad/Railway.
Road.
Road Map:
Spin a whole road map of a world - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Roadway.
Route.
Runway:
The hum of the runway as the plane waits - Samantha H. Chung "Time Traveler's Haibun: 2024"
On a runway paved with flypaper - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Runways jeweled with wrenches and sheet metal - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"
Shortcut:
Even destiny takes a shortcut - Diane DeCillis "Happy-Go-Lucky"
For scattershot revelations or shortcuts - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"
Sidewalk.
Street.
Subway.
Thoroughfare:
Rude thoroughfares and abandoned mines - francine j. harris "Wetland"
A thoroughfare for raccoons and opossums - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"
Cobbled with the anguished stones that the thoroughfare disowns - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"
Idling in streets and thoroughfares - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
Track.
Trail.
Travel.
Tunnel.
Turnpike:
Weave through turnpike traffic while applying lipstick - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Walkway:
Witch hazel going wild along the walkway - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Way.
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Atlas.
Avenue.
Backroad:
The backroad switchbacks of his double helix - Shelley Puhak "Portrait of the Artist with Three Moons"
We take off down the same backroads - m.s. RedCherries "the end cannot be me"
Boulevard.
Cartography:
The cartography of longing - Kendra DeColo "Seville"
Causeway:
The causeway to the upper places - Zona Gale "In Arvia's Room"
Channel.
Commute:
The timetables of their brief commute - Paul Bernstein "Sparrows"
Crossroad.
Crosstown:
Steering a crosstown bus is not for the faint - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Cruise:
Cruising through four octaves - Jenny Johnson "Aria"
On this dial the condor's shadow cruises - Pablo Neruda "Come Up with Me, American Love" transl. by Nathaniel Tarn
Cruised among cold silences - Elizabeth Spires "Coelacanth"
Dead-End.
Drag.
Drive.
Exodus.
Footbridge:
A rococo footbridge hard at work holding up some dumb illusion - Brian Tierney "Catering"
Footpath:
On a footpath by the stream - Janet Kauffman "Dodder Is No Daughter"
Over footpaths of fallen petals - Phan Nhien Hao "Seattle Memory" (translated by Hai-Dang Phan)
Go singing through the footpaths of the swamp - Jean Toomer "Georgia Dusk" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Footpath creeping through the long grass to the door - Miss Virginia Townsend "The House in the Lane" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Freeway:
The non-stop roaring hum of cross-stitched freeways - Mouna Ammar "Time-travel"
Two freeways meet in orgies of commerce and congestion - Jesse Nathan "Panhandle"
Freeway with exit signs to towns I've never heard of - Keith Taylor "Directions to North Fishtail Bay: No Beginning"
Highway.
Hitch-Hike:
Hitch-hike on the tailpipe of a car - Duane Ackerson "Little Ghosts"
Intersection.
Interstate:
Such lit vacancy as interstate motels announce - Scott Cairns "A Lot"
Empty interstate by starlight - Richard Jones "Rest"
Only dust and the hum of the interstate - Khaled Mattawa "Before"
Down this interstate of solitude - Joy Priest "Looking for the Beautiful Things"
Itinerary/Itinerant.
Journey.
Lane.
Orbit.
Overpass:
He's an overpass light brigade soldier - Margaret Noodin "Sometimes" transl. by the author
Path.
Pathway.
Pothole:
All bumps and potholes that could take out your wheel - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha "bad road"
Rail/Railroad/Railway.
Road.
Road Map:
Spin a whole road map of a world - Ada Limon "The Spider Web"
Roadway.
Route.
Runway:
The hum of the runway as the plane waits - Samantha H. Chung "Time Traveler's Haibun: 2024"
On a runway paved with flypaper - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Runways jeweled with wrenches and sheet metal - Yona Harvey "Dark and Lovely After Take-Off (A Future)"
Shortcut:
Even destiny takes a shortcut - Diane DeCillis "Happy-Go-Lucky"
For scattershot revelations or shortcuts - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"
Sidewalk.
Street.
Subway.
Thoroughfare:
Rude thoroughfares and abandoned mines - francine j. harris "Wetland"
A thoroughfare for raccoons and opossums - Campbell McGrath "The Prose Poem"
Cobbled with the anguished stones that the thoroughfare disowns - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"
Idling in streets and thoroughfares - Tao Yuan-ming aka T'ao Ch'ien "On Being Assigned as Military Advisor to the Garrison Army, Written when Passing Ch'ua" transl. by Burton Watson
Track.
Trail.
Travel.
Tunnel.
Turnpike:
Weave through turnpike traffic while applying lipstick - Vincent Toro "¿Que Que La Femme?"
Walkway:
Witch hazel going wild along the walkway - Gabrielle Calvocoressi "An Inn for the Coven"
Way.
For water routes see: Potential Titles: Water - Bodies of [category].
Navigation Links:
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.