Creatures Of The Night

Creatures of the Night . iron grates over the street drains roofs for the poor refuge for the creatures of the night darting across intersections shying from the hungry grinning grills of the eighteen wheelers hungry for something besides butterflies and the splatter of bugs dark shadows flickering and glimmering through the glare of headlights and the red glow of tailights slipping from darkness to darkness pooled in shopping centers slipping from darkness to darkness across the parking lots with their shopping carts and their shoppers with their corporate logos and loading docks automatic doors sliding open checkout is the wish tree for manna from heaven but not for the lost ones coming out from under the streets . . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~©2017 Susan Williams