Saturday, December 2, 2023

Cedar Street Blues By Keith Pearson

 She crouches in doorways

Her sooty head nodding left to right

In anxious anticipation of no one

Of nothing

As the smoothing stones sweat ice

Her latest breath a brittle halo

Clinging to her brow

In her utter acceptance eyes bow

To some noble phantom

         (in her dreams the trains run

         On time and the boxcars

         Are filled with friends)

Some companion to this early light.




keith pearson was born and raised in new hampshire and works at a local high school in the math department.


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