stillborn

how to render it tersely,

concisely

the dome light shining eerily from within

the guts of a patient

in the body shop's fenced and padlocked yard tonight
 
 

breezy, cool and clear

a moonlit night

abruptly covers a brooding, humid, closed oppressive day

in June

suddenly summer, then stillborn
 
 

i'm done with my work

for now

walking quickly

among these darkly shifting silhouettes

~ james netter