JIM TRAINER’S POEM OF THE WEEK

MANUMIT LULLABY

bells at dusk
the day is defeated
last of the sun awash
hidden is the Poorwill singing

beside the block
I.D. and “Sorry”
boom hitch my ferry
ground-out white Dunhill butt

of everything there
wasn’t much
a high tide of love
the hard break on the bluff

now a night to tumble
roll and rumble through
never easy, never free
never now completely

                                                AUDIO BENEATH PAYWALL