07-10-2015, 02:36 PM
When lights kick themselves off
and the night sweeps a cool palm
across the sky, I’m right there.
Somewhere in the hanging mist
between the warped catwalks
of a liminal hour, that’s where I am.
When a man and his dog plod out
onto a swath of fresh snow, and the
night sky to the south is corrugated
with orange light and flourescent hum,
that’s where I’ll be.
Don’t hold a candle up,
don’t shine a floodlight
or disrupt the calm, the
singular calm of sleeping
inside a shell. Just know
you are safe at home and
your own are safe at home
and you all will be that way
tonight, just stay inside.
Because tonight
isn’t a chew toy.
Monsters are out,
not the fangly ones,
but the contorted,
the distended,
and the weird.
and the night sweeps a cool palm
across the sky, I’m right there.
Somewhere in the hanging mist
between the warped catwalks
of a liminal hour, that’s where I am.
When a man and his dog plod out
onto a swath of fresh snow, and the
night sky to the south is corrugated
with orange light and flourescent hum,
that’s where I’ll be.
Don’t hold a candle up,
don’t shine a floodlight
or disrupt the calm, the
singular calm of sleeping
inside a shell. Just know
you are safe at home and
your own are safe at home
and you all will be that way
tonight, just stay inside.
Because tonight
isn’t a chew toy.
Monsters are out,
not the fangly ones,
but the contorted,
the distended,
and the weird.
-"You’d better tell the Captain we’ve got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital."
--"A hospital? What is it?"
-"It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now."
--"A hospital? What is it?"
-"It’s a big building with patients, but that’s not important right now."