Saturday, May 31, 2008

Next swill

The concrete apartment building two blocks west appears to be sinking in the swell of a darkness that blows, rains.

Straight ahead, that's my horizon--the building and a row of thirty-year-old trees.

When I was a boy in these parts I was taller than any tree south of 25th avenue.

Next will come lightning when it comes.

2 comments:

Gerald Hill said...

See Elizabeth Philips' fabulous "when I was a boy" poems in Torch River.

Brenda Schmidt said...

Ah, yes. And fine poems, those.