Episode 7: Check Engine
I.
Warning light returns
she knows this road by heart now
pulls back into care
II.
Lifted off the ground
the problem speaks in patterns
not failure — fatigue
III.
Receipt in her hand
she drives gentler than before
lstening this time
IV.
Key returned to her palm
miles to go fade into lamplight
she follows the sound
V.
At Hendershots, the jazz band gathers
what rattled learns a softer measure
in poetry we say
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(Season 2, Episode 7 from Midnight Fields, Poetic Screenplays from the Midnight Hours)