Headlong

By Rae Armantrout
As one
may be relieved
by the myriad
marigold faces
held aloft
beside the freeway — 
their articulation — 

and, too,
by the rush
of notes
following their own
likenesses
in these headlong
phrases

Relieved of what?
Relieved of what?

Source: Poetry (December 2013)