Midnight Walk

Dusty,
Dust roads,
Chimney dark
Smoke,
Slivers of moonlight,

Shadows of hip
Hop toads,
And plop,
Plopping
Fish-ringed
Water ponds.

Flashes of light,
Shudders of
Thunder-Pounded
Sky,
Gusts of
Wind-blown wind,

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poem by Terry L. Young
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Notes From the Village

Bleecker Street
just before
October dawn,

Winking
corner stoplight
flashing only red
to vacant Sunday
streets,

Old newspaper
Blowing,
unread,
down empty sidewalk
of hangover morning,

Gusts of New York
Puffing down sad alleys
Of broken amber glass,

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Kerouac's Ghost

i saw ol Jack's ghost

back in seventy-two,

taking one last trip

down the Great Highway,

headin for Big Sur

& the terrible surf

of old delirium tremors

& fog-bound nightmares.

ol Jack Duluoz,

beat rucksack

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