What Rough Beast | Poem for March 22, 2017

Gregory Luce
Bricks

Oh to be 18 again
and with a supply of bricks
so many windows
reflecting the glare
of that sick orange
sun if I can’t pull
clouds across them
then even double glazing
won’t be enough
to mute the sweet
music of shattering
glass.

 

Gregory Luce is the author of Signs of Small Grace (Pudding House Publications, 2010), Drinking Weather (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Memory and Desire (Sweatshoppe Publications, 2013), and Tile (Finishing Line, 2016). His poems have appeared in numerous journals and in the anthologies Living in Storms (Eastern Washington University Press, 2008), Bigger Than They Appear (Accents Publishing, 2011), and Unrequited (CreateSpace 2016) and Candlesticks and Daggers (CreateSpace, 2016). Retired from the National Geographic Society, he lives in Arlington, VA. and works as an instructor for Writopia Lab.

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