After a Storm

The sky is tele­vi­sion gray today.
City streets are slick and shiny;
build­ings drenched with soot coughed from clouds.
No rain­bows break the drudge today; instead
I found one fetal,
dying
splashed in black pud­dles inside
this park­ing garage.
The sky is tele­vi­sion gray today; halo­gen
light throws sky­lines into harsh black and white
relief.
Another rerun.

About Timothy Hankins

I’m a writer, a musi­cian and a can­di­date for min­istry in the United Methodist Church. I live and work in Knoxville, Tennessee, very near the Smoky Mountains.
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