#2

Mostly silent in this tourist town

As winter crawls back 

to where it came from

Rhythmic thump of a base 

from a car

Down on the highway

So loud it’s like

I’ve rested my head

On the chest wall of

A slumbering elephant

Lilac sky slipping away to indigo

Reminding me that time is

Moving faster now

And all those things I have put off 

For another time

Are coming due anyway