FOUR FEATHERS PRESS ONLINE EDITION: STILL NIGHT Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Still Night are now published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, October 26th between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Friday, October 18, 2024

Michelle Smith


Haiku #1


Moonrise bright, moonlight

Black velvet midnight gem sky

October's still night.




Haiku #2


Moon glow and rising

Creamy circles brightly dance

Rays of the still night.




Dodger blue tarp tents


Unhoused vs homelessness

Busy mornings and still nights

Owning compartments of

 plastic comfort

To keep the weather elements 

from a face becoming leathery at bay

The masses of Freeway Freddies

own the underpass

a concrete mattress cold and gray

Tumbleweed bodies, arid, are the

human plants that thirst for bottled water,

huddle for warmth from sun filled rays.

A thirsty Egyptian towel, 

shower soap and water 

as in Calgon take me away.

Dodger blue tarp tents can only 

do so much to prevent a 

wind blown breeze

sharp chill, arthritic depth of

the bone unseasonal winters cold

from the still night into day

and their makeshift Home Sweet Home.


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