nobody say a word

a snake slithers through the debris
of the living room floor and scares
out a mouse from its newspaper den

and nobody say a word?

the sun eases into the slack
between houses as stars
lazily bestow their graces

and nobody say a word

crossing the river

damage done out here on the ghost road
i track the highways but never catch them

the city oozed away from there,
i hate to reckon how far, endless   probably
endless miles between here and the old town

back then you’d roll clouds by the lid
and you had to cross the river for a beer

I keep waiting

This is an experiment with jquery and css. It works well on some platforms, on others it requires a reload, and on some not at all.
I keep waiting I keep waiting
For you
I keep waiting

Here’s a screencap of what it looks like when everything goes well.Screenscap of the properly rendered effect

Not even yards

That is not a bat stretching its wings
more than likely its a bird
those scalloped edges make that clear
a smudged brown of a thing at that
yes, if you connect the edges
they’re ruffled.