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Night Birds
by
Deborah Cotton

Night Birds

There was a sign
Lit up, a bill board
“All you can eat catfish.”
It was the only one there.
Late at night, in summer
The trucks passing
With their round white headlights
Peeling the air in strips
For mosquitoes
For us passing
On the left up the hills
Their gears stripped and grinding
Slowed them down to giant ambling bugs.
The sign attracted night birds
By the hundreds, swerving, clashing-
Not bats as you would think
But still fast.
The restaurant had been boarded up for years
The sign remained
Lit up as if forever
As if for the birds.
I never knew what kind they were
Impossible to ask-
Perhaps they were sparrows
Something small and dark
And permanent.

--Submitted by deborah121 on 2011-09-04.

Julianne Carlile:
I really like this.
Posted 09/06/2011 07:48 PM

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