Tag: night

• Midnight Drive

  The road is a sleeping cottonmouth With rain-wet scales. My headlights splatter Against a limestone escarpment – Menacing, indifferent. The road signs, armless scarecrows With motley faces, Nod hieratically as I pass. On the radio, a gin-soaked balladeer, Reminding anyone who’ll listen That love is a kick in the shins. He sings in time with…

  trkeith

  March 14, 2023

  Secular Verse

  night, poetry, secular