Dreaming

"They're all in bed/ with their shades down,/ dreaming about rain."

This verse is great. I instantly get an image in my head of driving with friends at night down an empty two-lane highway anywhere in Texas, seeing seemingly deserted small towns, each with a minimal amount of people, and wondering what the heck anyone does in a place with nothing around it for miles. I also get a better picture of the narrator, who seems to be a person stuck in the small-town atmosphere and needs a freedom from a mundane life filled with "sleeping" and "dreaming" rather than experiencing life head-on like she is, with "the wind and the bugs/blowing all over [her].". She's discovering something new that everyone else isn't aware of, or doesn't seem to care about. By stripping down in the convertible, she's creating an extreme solution to the boredom she is apparently suffering.

The men in the poem play small roles, and she almost seems resentful of their presence in the picture, even though they are necessary for her to be able to accomplish this "native art" she describes. How is what she is doing in the poem specific to a women, if it even is at all?