Road Postcard
Help me! Analyze this poem?
**Synonyms and definitions and overall meanings please**
LAST LEG- Viggo Mortensen
After driving the first forty miles of the day
you accuse me of ignoring you.
Now I am waiting for the next volley
but it isn't coming.
I've been thinking for an hour since
and I don't know what you meant.
All you probably wanted was to trade a few words.
I didn't.
My mind has been on road things.
I see that the ocotillo is greening
the sage looks like new.
Crows everywhere.
Some of the washes are wet
and there's a three-day grass mantle
on the highway shoulder.
Even the cottonwoods show signs
of waking up.
But now that you have accused me
I don't feel like mentioning these things.
Or the roadkills.
Or the Colorado
which we just crossed
as you bore down on yet another postcard.
Maybe you're right
maybe this silence is oppresive
indicating some great underlying disorder.
But the year has already begun
and the car is running perfect.
she wants to talk he doesn't it is spring and since he is driving he is noticing the scenery and the animals and she is busy writing post cards. he isn't understanding what she has said and has been trying to figure it out adding to the silence. but now that he has been accused of ignoring her instead to concentrating on the road he doesn't feel like sharing the beauty of the countryside. then he figures she is right and there is something wrong with the relationship since there is so much silence. he doesn't seem to care as he goes on to thinking about other things like the car running well. hope this helps