Survivors

Survivors

Thursday, September 14, 2017

The Gathering


©  2017  Steve King
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He leaned so naturally,
bent to shadow by the moon.
He asked if I had a match.
‘I don’t smoke, myself,’ he said,
‘but I must look to my watch,
for the times are old.’

So soon, it gathers like a dream,
the waiting while his moon burns hot,
and all my world grows cold.


A poem for Joy Jones’ Friday 55