Hallway to Nowhere

Tag: derelict

  • If Crows Do Not Suffice (Poem)

    when the moment hangs so heavy

    there right there in front

    unexpected after a turn up a street

    so that you remember the weight of time

    and when you first felt its pressure

    again and again these encounters

    seemingly stochastic but you know better

    look up at the derelict casements

    and cracked glass windowpanes

    the peeling impermanent glory of ordinary passage

    the gritty testament to the beauty of wearing down

    with their comfort walk on and take care

    to step on each spider-webbed crack in the sidewalk

  • Solace In Desuetude (Poem)

    I walk on crumbling pavement in derelict streets

    To gaze upon abandoned buildings with boarded doors

    And dusty signs that advertise sorrow for closure.

    I travel to the overgrown fields

    To visit wakes of vultures with avid mien

    And clamorous geese that fly overhead to nowhere.

    The lowering skies and threatening clouds provide refuge

    For a journeyer such as I, hooded in gray and solitary.

    When all ground is unsteady and every kindness a threat,

    I take comfort in the evidence of decay.

    With knowledge of such dark glory, can misery abide?