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Wolf In The Apartment Complex
mid-fast-food late-shift
second floor hallway
mostly quiet
Wolf can smell chicken somewhere close
(203, 204, 206) //
fluorescent hall-light ceiling-flickers
television static
broken glass on hardwood, boot-crunched //
Wolf paws open a knobless door
(214)
broken sofa, no window-glass
wind howling
cold
// yellow street-light flashing
Amy Schreibman Walter
Image by "FOTOCROMO".
On The Bus From East Dulwich To Oval
It is the coldest night of the year, the man with pleated corduroys
announces to his reluctant travel companions. He speaks the phrase with authority and a
strange kind of passion, as if delivering wisdom from some holy book.
Bananas are dying in the cold of Elephant And Castle tonight. Strawberries seem ill,
sitting between icicles on tables of fake grass. Oranges shock me with their pallor. This
night feels far too frigid for fruit.
Soon it is Oval. The man with the corduroys carries his Tesco bags into the darkness, the
bus returns to a collective silence.