midnight wanderer by James Morehead
July 3, 2011
midnight wanderer
by James Morehead
the wanderer glides through midnight darkness home from work working late wandering silent in multi-spectral gadgets' glow red white green pinpoints of light leading down the hall one by one by one tentative feeling footfalls testing for the top step pausing by the landing's turn white noise patter from the fountain outside floating in steady hypnotic patterns a clutch lurch and wurr as the furnace awakens camoflaged by fountain and furnace feeling along in deepening darkness hand follows the wall footsteps path traced in memory sleeping daughters sleep surrounded by dreams' ebb and flow blow a midnight kiss then back down the hall to pause in moon's crest creeping out from behind shifting clouds then gone pupils black and wide to steal light in darkness shadows whisper dresser to the left nightstand to the right slide into sheets under covers nestle sideways breath held tight sense her breathing rise and fall eyes close shadows stolen blackness total
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