From The Immediate and No Sooner, published in 2021.
798.
Tray dropped on the floor.
The kitchen listens. Clatter.
Not shatter. Exhale.
1/23/20
799.
the concrete gray sky
the angle-paned glass sidewalk
ice storm and city
1/30/20
800.
Train at the platform
vibrates a low dark resolve
The passengers board
1/30/20
The middle one is especially evocative.
Thank you. I was thinking of some years (decades??) ago of being at work during a storm.
Events like that are often very memorable.