Four and Twenty of the Week, July 19

Back in the City

These clouds are too close
to see all those stars
but our candle bats lambent
rose lashes through the lambic.

Herb Shallcross

Herb Shallcross lives in Queens with his wonderful wife. His poems have been anthologized in In the Garden of the Crow from Elektrik Milk Bath Press, and are forthcoming online at Apiary Magazine.
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