Night

( by Nick Mancuso )

tweak.
A solitary bird sings
its bright dark song
over the strange soothing music
rustle of distant freeways

i am lost on this freeway
travelling on the manic zone
at 2.a.m.

all the radios on this road
are filled with weirdish music

attractive and harsh
insistent,thunp,thump
thumplike the beast heart

of the engine of this old car
my song is older than loss
i sold
and the streets peel away

i have gone to wind says the bird
i have gone to wind and past

all is gone to empty flight
thru nightish space

and I too am
gone

worried by the grave

and by loves constant loss

but a night bird sings
and sings again

home,come
come home again.