I-5 in My Head
The music a delivery driver makes in his head on the I-5 California-to-Oregon overnight run he has done four hundred times.
8 tracks·33 min·for code
1
Stockton On-Ramp Eleven Fifty-Two
Merging onto the empty interstate.
5:04
2
Every Overpass I Have Counted
Bridge fourteen of seventy-eight to the state line.
6:10
3
The Melody I Keep Rewriting
A four-bar phrase he has been working on for three years.
8:28
4
The Only Other Truck
Passing a Schneider rig at three thirty.
2:03
5
The Shasta Grade
Eight percent climb at four AM.
2:10
6
What Im Thinking About on the Grapevine
Mental loop on a familiar curve.
3:09
7
Weed Truck Stop Six Fourteen
The Loves at Weed, fluorescent light.
3:23
8
Into Medford at First Light
Pulling into the depot as the sky greys.
3:22
