The Gas House Roof

by Shanna Baldwin

Midnight on the Gas House Roof

The poets are out

Quiet streets

miniatures in the moonlight

the breeze blows

the cobwebs go

Below me the poet walks

ax in hand

the dance of words blowing around him

and stick to his book of gold

The way it was willed

the way the words fall
The fall of the poets Ax

Posted July 15, 2004