Cherrylog Road

I think this poem stuck out to me because it was different from the rest of them in the way that it really was as simple as it looked. The other poems by Dickey seemed to take more decoding to understand. I liked how this poem just said what it had to say, and was therefore a little easier to understand.
The tone in this poem changed a few times throughout the poem. It started out as fun. The boy was playing in the cars, pretending to be the people that once owned the cars. He was doing this while waiting for Doris to meet him. The poem also starts to build up anticipation as he waits for her.
I liked the part where Doris first arrived. She was loosening the screws, and getting car scraps to bring home to show her father that she had went to the junkyard to get things (not to meet a boy). "Through dust where the blacksnake dies
Of boredom, and the beetle knows The compost has no more life." I really liked this description. It made Doris appear really strong, and did not even notice the dust, dirt, or animals. She was definitely not being portrayed as a "typical" southern bell. She was not going to wait around, and did not need any help from a man and she was IN A JUNKYARD!
The other description that I really liked was the last stanza. "Restored, a bicycle fleshed With power, and tore off Up Highway 106, continually Drunk on the wind in my mouth, Wringing the handlebar for speed, Wild to be wreckage forever." This description really represents the freedom of adolescence. It just makes us realize that Doris and the guy were not in a romantic relationship. They were just kids celebrating their adolescence and the freedom that goes along with it.