Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Industrial Shadow

 


                                                                    Photo by Rodger Kingston

 

A shadow of infernal

machinery plastered against

brownish yellow brickwork

invokes the human silhouettes

burnt into sidewalks and walls

at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

When I crept behind this building

to exfoliate my bladder

I didn’t expect to encounter

this hulking dark impinging

on an otherwise brilliant day.

This critique of my careless habits

 

intends to censure or censor

my projected moment of ease.

I guess I’d better withdraw

and find a friendly men’s room

somewhere between Harvard Square

and the surface of the moon.

 

 

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