The Fingerless Hours



The decay of sunset in the fingerless hours...

Old smiles reflected in rust.

Pictures, grey with thought, are carelessly hidden in broken hedges.

and headless dolls and plastic tea sets where cider rules and private air smells bitter

and finally, ripped posters clashing with twisted empty doorways

behind splintered bar-room chatter.

The zipped up bottled highway spinning up into secret woodlands...above the disconnected barren city limit

Purple eyes glaze across the stubborn river

Cider bottle leather jackets stacked on wooden stalls

rushed bruises painted on [ all the ] wrong walls

the stumble gates along the rutted brick

From the broken bandstand to the burnt out bark, the crippled landscape is holding the sky in place

gritted rotten walls shake at the passing of invisible feet



Walking Notes
Steve Coel


Walking Notes
Steve Coel
Walking Notes
Steve Coel
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