On Nights Like This,

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I can feel the world as it goes by. It’s music.

J.T.

On the Block Redux

Mom's in Los Angeles; Winter 2018
La Casita en Los Angeles; Winter 2018

When the sun falls

And the shadows unfurl

Behind rusting bars

The heartbeats of home lie in snippets of dim blue pulsing.

Across their peeling adobe,

The wind just trots,

But behind them,

A blue screen blares:

“The world
Rushes further
To rot.”

When sunlight returns,

From the same adobe,

These tiny creatures emerge.

Splashing outward in waves,

Eyes abundant with sky,

They sing past the iron gates, too:

The excerpts of new, unbarred worlds coursing.

J.T.