Eyes Peeled for Elvis: Haikus from a Road Trip

With humor and bittersweet verse, Neill Morgan (with a little help from his friends, including two award-winning poets) chronicles the trip with Haikus from Texas to New Hampshire with his daughter Suzannah as she moves across the country to begin her first job out of college. From the opening stanza, we find the travelers wondering if the old van will make it:
Engine light cries wolf.
Someday it will mean something.
Not today, I hope.
Will they make it to New Hampshire without the engine blowing up? Is that Elvis they see as they pass through Memphis? Will the fast food give the author a heart attack? With cameo appearances from W.C. Fields and Doc Watson, the Road Trip Haikus will make you laugh, scratch your head in puzzlement, wipe a tear from your eye, call up an old friend, prepare a wonderful meal to eat with someone you love, and enjoy life just a little bit more today than you did yesterday. Not bad for two dollars and ninety-nine cents.