Thursday, August 6, 2009

Alone With theTerrible Universe


ALONE WITH THE TERRIBLE UNIVERSE



My shadow
attacks
the cedar
lattice
that surrounds
the patio.

Lamplight
filtered through thick September maples
splotches
the muscular cedar boards.

A dog,
a small brown and white
dog barks
across a dark sea
of crickets
all hunched together
like millions of glistening coquina shells
on a black shore.


2004 Alan Britt.

Posted over on Square Lake

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