Roger Singer

Sometime Night
 
in the distance
a passing train
releases its name
over a
midnight village
where
a blinking yellow
traffic light
speaks to an
empty road
and gray
streetlight shadows
until morning,
when breezes
drift to a
distant place,
stirring laundry
and flags


 
Floating Backward
 
heavy damp air
presses down
with an unseen hand
 
ditches full
from last
nights rain
 
we rest at fireside
telling stories
like water over
smooth stones

Dr. Singer is a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Connecticut, and past president of the Connecticut Shoreline Poetry Chapter, in association with the Connecticut Poetry Society. He has had over 1,500 poems published on the internet, magazines and in books and is a 2017 Pushcart Prize Award Nominee.