Saturday, December 20, 2014
your mother's bedroom window
a shadowy recollection
of her frayed woolen sweater
hair-pinned and pulled
back neatly in
thin braids of auburn
amid early autumn vestibules
of her mother's inner city row-home
I recall her
upon bleak November skylines
as blackbirds
scatter above
neighborhood rooftops
leftover chrome
from scrap-metal junkyards
toss refracted beams
into oncoming traffic
off route 309
fast-food chains and convenience stores
sulk in pale apprehension
of approaching evening
I knew her in the pressing night
clutching frosted mittens
across frozen township intersections
flickering streetlights
snapshot an irreproachable moment in time
exhaling chilly p.m. air together
into youth's imaginary twilight
gray cigar stenciled smoke
ascended
from next-door chimney grates
forever forgotten
into our earthen atmosphere
on sleepless nights we'd peer
through
your mother's bedroom window
you softly whispered something
in my ear
I laughed
and
it tickled I
envisioned you
momentarily after
letting your hair down
into livened auburn waves
of early autumn imagery
inside your mother's
inner city row-home
in November
only
I awoke
you were
dead
and
it was
December
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