The last wolf hurried toward me
through the ruined city
and I heard his baying echoes
down the steep smashed warrens
of Montgomery Street and past
the ruby-crowned highrises
left standing
their lighted elevators useless
Passing the flicking red and green
of traffic signals
baying his way eastward
in the mystery of his wild loping gait
closer the sounds in the deadly night
through clutter and rubble of quiet blocks
I hear his voice ascending the hill
and at last his low whine as he came
floor by empty floor to the room
where I sat
in my narrow bed looking west, waiting
I heard him snuffle at the door and
I watched
He trotted across the floor
he laid his long gray muzzle
on the spare white spread
and his eyes burned yellow
his small dotted eyebrows quivered
Yes, I said.
I know what they have done.
Copyright ©: Mary TallMountain
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Fairy Land iv by William Shakespeare
- The Challenge Answered poem – Alfred Austin
- Sunt Leones by Stevie Smith
- Robert Burns: The Lover’s Morning Salute To His Mistress:
- The Eviction by William Allingham
- Владимир Корнилов – Надежда
- The Sea And the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
- I Deserve It by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- Robert Burns: On Chloris: Requesting me to give her a Spring of Blossomed Thorn.
- Dialogue Between a Sovereign and a One-Pound Note by Thomas Moore
- Jobless by Rashmi
- Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux
- Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- As a Beam O’er the Face of the Waters May Glow by Thomas Moore
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
