Drink to Them By Jonathan S Baker

Thick syrupy

chiaroscuro shadows

wrap a cape

around the old man

as he stumbles

off crying for his wife

in the wrong direction.

Tomorrow she stepped

into dreamland.

His old buddy, Gary,

bumbles the other way

pulling on the beams

of the streetlight

to find the way home.

Jonathan S Baker lives and works in Evansville, Indiana where the Sterling Brewery finally tarnished.  They are the author of several collections of poetry including Cock of the Walk (Laughing Ronin Press, 2022) and Long Nights in Stoplight City (Between Shadows Press, 2023).  They are also the host of the longest running and most prestigious poetry series in Indiana, Poetry Speaks.