Light-blue firmament. Half-coin, the moon.
Toronto—pointed, rugged.
Lake Ontario, melody of waves.
The 4.55-pm-sun
dresses leafless trees, purple-reds; shadows shudder.
Curled clouds. A bronzed sky bleeds.
Warehouses; voracious. Highway-50 paralysed.
U-shaped boxes stand on flattened fields of wheat.
Glazed facades catch
roseate light; red-rimmed sockets. The pallid Sun gasps.
Flames lick the curtain walls; leaping tongues of vampires.
Dark-red torrent, live-streamed, for the humanoids
spit out
of
caverns.
Dim outlines frame the horizon. Pup wails, startling a
solitary walker; mournful trail.
Ghouls step out of gathering gloom; cold air hangs heavy for
the broke
harlequin.
Chameleon city changes form—the in-between hour when light and
shadow converge, in equal measure.
Young night, rouged and tattooed, yet to arrive, red stilettoes and pink
purse,
along the rough waterfront, where nocturnal desires mix with hunger.
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Sunil Sharma
Picture Nick Victor
Bio:
Sunil Sharma, PhD (English), is an academic, critic, literary editor and author with 29 published books: solo and joint.
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