The Night Owls

1.
Girls in short skirts
spill out of trains
with their locked perfumes:
the men and the eyes,
they follow

2.
The couples and non-couples,
are out sipping wine, holding
hands, eyes wandering

3.
Doorways are bathed in light,
beneath stairways and
shadows, shadows casting
towers on pavement

4.
Where skateboarders
in black shirts spiral,
desolate spirals

5.
It's on nights like these
that I wish for someone:
The world is too lonely
to enjoy it alone


Written: 12/31/06