The Sounds of a Town

There is always a buzz

A hum in turns and mountains tops. 

Glory and fright ride these silent dark waves 

when the power goes out. 

Like all is nestled but dangerous at once.

And the moon comes up 

To the honking trains, car alarms, cat fights, npc’s going to work.

While the ambulance sleeps till the fighting and dying begins. 

Memories of smaller, quieter, more wooden times

flood these parts -

And the lengths between us seem to stretch in some months.

But the town is nice and the people too. 

So here we live on 

in the rumbling hum of our lives.