Ten Short Poems Organized Around the Last Names of Vancouver Canuck Goaltenders, #3: Weeks

day in, day out:
the oncoming train
in the wake of the mind’s eye

dark faces on the moors
mud on the tracks

a waking starling,
staring

how to be a canary
in a coal mine economy

© 1997, 2011 by H. Wechsler