Dept. of Transportation
Metro Transit Division

King Street Center
201 S Jackson St
Seattle, WA 98104
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Looking Back

This is how things end
under an autumn sun hot as summer.
Birds flocking in the trees
roses spilling petals,
a garter snake tracing slow s-bends in the brown grass,
sliding like a sigh into dry weeds
while the tide pulls away from the beach.


Julie Gerrard lives and writes in Seattle (and often rides Metro).