Debora Short - ...Tuesday Morning (edited)

Cloister-ed corporate commuters
Squeezed in noxious rows
And encased in tubular steel
A clan’s compulsion
Just streaking underground
All privately yearning
To fly-out
To nest
On stronger shoulders
Flocked in winter’s softer wool
As if they were
Moths encircling
That security light
Outside
My mountaintop back-door


(Mountaintop Cottage, Tennessee
~ August 29,2006)

Debora Short

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