THUGWISE CAT

Night settles
in the six pm of eternity,
no daylight savings
for the damned.
AFTER A RAIN
Tell me again
how candlelight,
dusk dark rooms,
guardian dog,
heavy door,
and brass door knob
collect the sound
and feel of
hollow wet throb
inside down spouts.
Blue shutters
cloak windows
looking out to
wet slick stone stairs,
wet pebble path,
wet water garden bridge,
bent nail submerged.
Raindrops gloss
luminescent green ivy.
In the pond
two fish
are parallel bars of gold.
Sting of thirsty mosquitoes
on my bare arm
as I walk and hear
a single bird call.
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