orgami's Diaryland Diary

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trip through the trip

everything sparkles
headlights
streetlamps

even the stars

the shelves look brighter
in the night store open
twenty four seven

and I find the chips
and a new kind of coffee
instant to start my
days

and the bag flutters on
the way home past the laughing
men on the dark bench

past the kids throwing frisbees
on their last few free nights
before school

clunking and the chain ratcheting
on the downgrade home through
backstreets

someone being helped on the stretcher
from the bus at the hospital
the doors still not come down in
the garage
the white sheets
blue uniforms

dark cedars along the fenceline
turn a corner pedal
and there is Venus burning bright
over the lake
even if I cant see the water
for the condos from here

put the bike away
and stare at the Big Bear
Constellation
the bright star of the north
perceptively there
its all dark
and I stand awhile
in the quiet

3:07 p.m. - 2008-08-30

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