Small Towns
They are gone now, those neighborhood sages.
The streets are quiet, each house keeps to its own.
Doors and windows are closed, no one has spoken in ages.
They are gone now, the eyes and ears of neighborhood sages.
We grew up under their noses, went through all our stages,
lived in and out and through their houses like home.
They heaped advice, handed out warnings, those sages.
All the streets are quiet now. Each house lives alone.
Ruth Moose
WMO is a free gathering of writers in Chatham and Lee counties, NC for monthly discussions about craft and business of writing, as well notices of opportunities and literary events in the area. WMO is sponsored by the North Carolina Writers' Network.
Bring the sages back along with the town drunks of prophets.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff.