Sunday, November 17, 2024

a dead-end world

it is ten o'clock...on a dead-end street

the tapered end of a dimly lit candle

the walls cold from so many centuries

and far too few torches in the night,

memories of the dead-end world.


the Shannon, with dark and lovely tongue

laps the rock-rimmed barriers below

her tourists tucked in their cozy little beds

their buses airing in their own open bays

and far too few figuring hours in the night,

no memories behind the yellowed doors.












 

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