Street Light Improvisation Poem by Lee Mack

Improvisation 05 13 2013 xx xxx xx

Street Lights...
I once knew these streets
Auto tracks came along and
Widened paths into lanes and
Street lights - posted yards
Apart - yards were fronts for
Stakes in life and sub-prime
Entrails scavenged from
Slaughterhouse disposal pits
At risk drained into city
Creeks -once hard times known
To stretch to absolute dead
Endings - way back was back
When patience listed to surface
With time to abandon and debark
But not enough to wait it out
We could read footprints in mud
Learn by marked paved paths
We walked alone among shadow
Parabola images side-ways to
Glass suns - we outlived places
Of birth most narrowly where we
Were and where we had to go
Were we on our way to find
Highways? Mirrored everywhere
We looked but could not see to
Differ souls in the light of
Deputed mirror images in street
Lights -primary actors
Turn to attention gracefully and
Ambiguously -Though we slept
the day and night would guide us
We peeked at patience as though
promised in street lights.