Thursday, August 17, 2023

Impossible the Debt Bestowed

 It is the gloaming in steady rain 

striking the windshield, windows,

that metallic sound of rain 

hitting the car’s roof,  

fog rising in random valleys. 

Sense the constancy of beauty,

take a bill out of my mailbox

that provides no gloaming, 

nothing haunting, no fog 

letting me wonder where I am, might be.

I will pay the bill tomorrow.

This evening’s beauty, this  

will not leave, this sense of being

given what I can never pay for.


-Byron Hoot

https://hootnhowlpoetry.com

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