Shorts and Curlies

Village Night Song (for Langston Hughes)

The city exhales

and rivers

of light blink into life - trickle

ebb their way across

down

or uptown

through the canyons of shadow

upon which we now stand

the city whispers like a forest - 

a thousand

hopes and ideas thrown like so many

fairy

lights into a box piled

one upon the next

each calling to another but 

then the horns chime

like a cry - 

an engine turns and fades

you feel the pull of

morning when all

this will lie 

cracked, barren and dried in the sun

like a hippo’s skin

Remko Caprio - Mer de la Nuit

http://www.remkocaprio.com/2009/08/06/mer-de-la-nuit/

Langston Hughes - Harlem Night Song

http://iclasses.org/assets/literature/harlem_night_song.cfm