NIGHT NOISES

A heavy truck
Zinging motorcycle
A car horn

Another heavy truck
Car tires hissing to a stop …
             then go …
Motorcycle …

The shrill flyover
of a jet
Gulf War memories
all night hearing
B2s heading out
bombing raids …

I awaken
to the momentarily
silence of this night

A heavy truck …
A motorcycle …

The leaden scrape
of a manhole cover
being moved

A stray cat startles
knocking over a potted plant
on this terrace

Truck …
Motorcycle …
Voices …

Silence …

            Until the dawn …