Greg Kosmicki

WINDY NIGHT

At the computer, warm March night not far

I hate to say it, from the end of the world

 

I suddenly become aware of the sound of wind

over the steady hums and tweets of my computer


as I read someone’s words on the imaginary piece of paper

in front of me, words about death, then another poem,

 

death too, both by this young woman born a year or two

before I graduated high school. I hear it whine


it has someplace it has to go it doesn’t want to go.

open the window, feel its vague caress inside my shirt,

 

draw into me an ambulance, a farting car,

a motorcycle screech far up a distant street,

 

smell of rain washes over me once again before it arrives

too late to save us from ourselves.

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