[Jim Moonan]

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A few thoughts — And welcome to the Sphere!

• I like it, but not all the way. The first stumble for me was in the first stanza. I just couldn't get the idea out of my head that it was a cyclist — possibly a unicyclist — that was raging. (I'm not the sharpest Hornet in the hive : )) But I eventually realized it was the steering wheel. So obstacle overcome.
  
• The N feels a bit too calm to be gridlocked. Though zen driving is an art form.
  
• Roger's suggestion of making the N the angry driver is interesting. I think it would require a reworking of the language, since presently, as I said, the driver is channeling zen.
  
• As for the descriptor "steal", I, too would not have used that to describe a road rager — though like Carl I get what you getting at. The language I use while in my car is unlike any other language I typically use. There's something about being in a capsule. Many words come to mind that I might mutter under my breath at a road rager, but "steal" isn't one of them.
  
• Then there's always that chance that what is happening is not what it appears to be. That's when that empathic/empathetic side of me kicks in that imagines anguish when all I see is anger. Could it be that the rager was desperate to get home with the medicine his dog desperately needs, or to the hospital to be with his dying wife, or late to his own wedding that he is already in a state of panic about to begin with? Could it be? Usually it's not, but I use it sometimes to help me to find my moment of zen.
  
• But I like the form and enjoy watching poets engage in it. There are a few very good practitioners of the villanelle here. With some practice you may become one of them

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