Sleepless Wednesday
the heat lingers in September
as though it knows something is up.
there are watery voices in the street
and a single still headlight
blinds me in the dining room.
on the pavement outside the open window
I hear a lone dry leaf on an evening stroll.
- © Harris Coverley 2021
Harris Coverley has verse published or forthcoming in Polu Texni, California Quarterly, Star*Line, Spectral Realms, Scifaikuest, Corvus Review, Spank the Carp, Better Than Starbucks, The Oddville Press, View From Atlantis, Danse Macabre, Rasputin, Once Upon A Crocodile, 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, and many others. A former Rhysling nominee and member of the Weird Poets Society, he lives in Manchester, England.
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