Tune Commentary
I wrote this after driving around the Texas Hill Country in my old VW beetle. Couldn’t get much on the old car radio, especially between towns. The radio was old-school analog tuning, none of this every 5 MHz digital tuning scanning you have today. Getting a station to come in clearly took a deft hand, and even then the signal could be weak and full of static.
The title Tune could refer to a melody or be a verb for the act of tuning a musical instrument or tuning in a radio station. Driving around in the Texas Hill Country in a ’69 Bug can feel like you are searching for something meaningful, too. Tuning your mind in on a direction in life, perhaps?
Don’t take my commentaries on these poems as gospel. At its best poetry should be open to multiple interpretations. We poets give the readers credit to discover the meanings that move them, harmonizing with their thought and experience. Read it, prick up your antenna, and tune in.
