Monday, January 21, 2008

view from a snow globe


through the glass, a person jogs

fido’s leash dangling from the right wrist

a wadded Wal-Mart bag stuffed in the back pocket

 

a car stops; a girl emerges and skates her skirted hips

to an oak door with a brass knocker.  the amber light

of a foyer slants its way to the night… a beam of sun

through a dusty room.  the door closes; the car leaves. 

 

night falls with heaven’s pasture beyond the dome

of reach.  the vacant, quiet of the house echoing

the cost of journeys with lackluster endings 

 


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