City Scene Poem by Bryan Riley

City Scene



Slow-moving
traffic winds
through fetid
trash-lined
streets

Sodium arc
lamps pale
down on
slick
sidewalk tar

A shadow or
imagined
breathing of
a figure
drawing near

A sharp quick
staccato-
the footsteps
of fear

Bryan Riley
Sunday, April 18, 2010
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