Road Trip | Susan Vespoli

  Susan Vespoli lives in Phoenix where she teaches English at a downtown community college, rides her bike along the canals, and walks her 3-legged dog Jack. Although she is a relative homebody, she loves to travel wherever and whenever she can by foot, car, plane, and/or motorcycle. Her poetry and prose have been published online and in print anthologies and journals.       PLANET LAUNDROMAT   We arrived separately to stuff our darks and lights into waiting washers: the knit capped youth perched on a folding counter the family laughing Spanish the man selling felt dog bobbleheads from a flat box and the matron with her bowl cut watching her tired swirls of fabric through the wide eye of a dryer but are all on a mission to free our belongings of any trace of us before we venture out again into the vast unknown.