A DEEPER LOOK

CANTON AND SURROUNDING AREAS

6:15 pm Friday night

"How soon can you leave?"

"My bags are packed and I'm just waiting on you."

"On my way"

7:00 pm

Stuck in traffic in Conroe

Highway lane closures, construction

We stop at an urban micro geocache,

Tucked away near the place that water flows

A camo nano, with three DNFs on last logs

But I make quick work of it

Looking under the surface of things

To find the "something different"

"You're getting pretty good at this!"

Today, at least

8:00 pm

We finally get to Centerville, and food

Whataburger never tastes so good

And we settle into deep conversations

About life, women, love, our selves, our men

People we used to know

As she and I went to the same high school

Hung out with peripheral friends

We put life up to the microscope

As we cruise down life's highway

10:30 pm

Finally arrive at the Super Eight

So tired but stay up late

Talking and watching hotel TV

Get up in the early morning

And head to dog show

At First Monday Trade Days grounds

Scout tries, but it's not enough

This day he takes second out of four in his class,

"Open Blue, Dog"

Funny things you only hear at the dog show,

Snippets of conversation that make sense somehow

Like "Do you want to do that open bitch?"

Or "Oh, we're thirty minutes past Carol"

After the dog show, it's bison burgers from the Dairy Palace

And refreshing back at the hotel

Before heading out east to Tyler State Park