A dark thing
by SAMO!
Posted to Poetry on 2003-01-08 04:47:00
Grave wore the night like a robe
dragged me out
swearing
stumbling
pinned a blurry street to my chest
City lights like a necklace
watch:
red blood
red wine
fuel the hungry steps
that found nothing but low nativity
on the walls and in the faces
from the mouths and with the flesh