Still Life

by Jesse Anger

Above the grey scale playground
a slow-shutter sky sounds—
dry leaves crawl over concrete.
 
Static compounds the sand,
impressions time leveled
and wind.
 
Moot skyscrapers background things—
the immobile swing and spiraling slide.
A dead-watch Sunday. The unasked why.
 
Rain-marked cars in a silent line.
The leaf-matted stair, the door ajar—
dust on the portrait molts by the chair
in the crosshatched hum of futile air.
 
On the wall
the second hand crawls to a stop.
An arbitrary hour. An arbitrary clock.


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