NIGHT SHIFTS
Phi Kappa Phi Forum, Spring 2004 by Staehle, George
The nighttime
highway whine
of eighteen-wheelers
brings back
midnight streetcars
screeching
out of monster faces
in my bedroom
when I was five.
Everywhere
people lurch awake
to the screams of distant engines -
some, like bombers,
so alarm-clock regular
that their threat wakes
before their sound;
some, like old war,
bombard over and over in dreams;
and some, like the trigger click
of a reluctant hallway light,
the last thing heard.
GEORGE STAEHEE
George Stachle was born in Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated from Ohio State University, followed by more than thirty years in U.S. government physics research at the University of California. he paints, hikes, plays various sports, and works on writing with his wife and daughter, who also write.
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