Cyclogues (Early Autumn, 2021)

The rubber meets the crushed limestone (Photo by the author).

A chilly Friday morning. The day’s forecast is warm, nearly 80 degrees. But for now, it’s under 50.

“It’s late September,” Rod Stewart and Chris Berman would sing and say, respectively, back in the day, “and I really should be back at school.” But some of us never left school. And that’s a good thing, because none of us should ever quit on our curiosity. Certainty is lazy, a sign of intellectual atrophy and is…