Tuesday, 25 October 2016

JUST BEFORE SUNRISE

JUST BEFORE SUNRISE

The penny-pinching murder of cold streetdarks
And of all those impatiently incapable of waiting
From the oncoming lightning flickering menace
To the spring-footed invisibility-cloaked children

The gulls circle the buses in front of the Town Hall
High Street gliders floating soaring unidentified
Pale grey twilit ghosts of the oncoming morning
Earliest birds seeking out fat curly-fried worms

The last dying sliver moon looks down upon the world
Watching gloomily as it soon will finally close its eye
Bathing the killing streets with its deepest shadows
Before the soothing milk of another day reveals all



Martin A W Holmes, October 2016

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