Surrender

by Andrea Janov

This is the first

ride home

I ever enjoyed.

We leave

over the George Washington Bridge

drive through darkness

surrounded     by lights

the bridge   :   the city

in the rearview mirror

he stares   through   the windshield

his hair hangs in his eyes

I push   :   play

Cheap Trick:  I Want You to Want Me

sit Indian-style

back against the passenger door

eyes closed

my hair thrashing      in the wind.

Maintained or neglected, familiar or foreign, well-worn or wild, roadways inform our decisions and identities. Their geographies direct the movement
of our lives and sketch the cartography of our stories. In this spirit, 322 Review publishes provocative emerging and established artists whose fiction,
creative nonfiction, poetry, and mixed media artwork wander the paths of human experience. A nonprofit literary journal conceived
and operated by former Rowan University graduate students, 322 Review is based in Southern New Jersey.