- Gary Hunter
Unbroken - February 15, 2021
a train whistles
in the distance
as I lie awake
the sweet sound
in my ears
slips inside
a country in pieces
returns in a dream
unbroken
and snorers snore
when the sleepless
need a lullaby
a train whistles
in the distance
as I lie awake
the sweet sound
in my ears
slips inside
a country in pieces
returns in a dream
unbroken
and snorers snore
when the sleepless
need a lullaby
it’s a double-hawk dive of black ink wings but plummeting “w’s” in a blue sky need a vowel WoW
just one time say I still love you during one of my swearing rages when a vocal strain of mine enters the air smacking it with inflamed fists elbow slams and kung fu heels of fury my revenge lacks c
in the dream of a memory at times familiar faces in odd outfits mouth words they’d never speak in places and situations they never were this is history rewritten in warped mist something the awakened