bedroom window

the fire last night caused by a recalled FORD vehicle in the underground parkade - Corporate terrorism

sleepy
looking at the sky –
                   before the fire

the crescent moon
                fell into the ocean
to the windy howls of night -

a hopeless lantern
                  a wandering orb
longitudinally waned

transiting with gravity -
warning bells burdened
           our surrounding faces

to lost and unbelonging -
      so peregrinated
           by the reaching sea -

black smoke
blots out the sky
where once we dreamed -

Author's Note

this happened the other night - thankfully alarms worked and firefighters gathered by the sea to black smoke skies -

Reviews

[Vanessa Whiteley]

There is some wonderful imagery here.

the crescent moon
fell into the ocean
to the windy howls of night

and that last stanza is stunning but so sad and disillusioned the loss of dreams.