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