One cannot live in this world
without wounds.
There is no other world.
The church bell breaks open the graves of silence.
Those aroused begin to murmur what they know.
A siren screams through a neighborhood of dreams.
A startled bird,
a stiff-haired yowling cat,
a dog aroused by trouble,
each tell their own version
of the same truth.
Danger –
looming.
There is no other world.
2015