Judge E. Ethelbert Miller’s comments: “I found this poem haunting in a mystical sense. Since I don’t know how to drive, I’ve never experienced that need to avoid something on a rain-slick road. Still, I like how this poem is almost crafted to resemble a road. Lines seem to collapse on each other. The words ‘void,’ ‘vague,’ ‘nothing’ and ‘emptiness’ increase the blackness of the night. What is the shape of things unseen? What do we fear at the crossing?”