Cooling Sounds

Apartment lights. Eyes into night.
Checkerboard windows sign on and then off,
moving with resign, without thought,
randomly walking across the warmth
of a fading brick building;
the pawns are quiet within.

Whispered words circle in dark shadowed
hallways and behind windows
as spirits warm into night and its
cooling sounds.

A cloud covered moon spreads a lifeless
gray paste onto the city
where apartment lights blink like stars.

Roger Singer

Archived 10/20/2011