Midnight Riders, by Tricia Marcella Cimera

Day of the Dead, by Jose Manuel Napoles (USA). Contemporary. Click image for artist site.

midnight riders
​
they ride every night,
past midnight, by
our sleeping houses
up & down the hills
while the fat moon
glows & the flower petals
open with a sigh,
the big guy, the little guy
& the bird that points
the way.            this
is their time, every night
is the day
of the dead & they ride
like the wind, their bike light
beaming in our graffiti
dreaming until the morning
comes & the funky rooster
crows        come home!

Tricia Marcella Cimera

This poem and artwork pairing is a collaboration between writer Tricia Marcella Cimera and tattoo artist and painter at Funky Rooster Tattoo and Art Gallery. It first appeared in The Fox Poetry Box.

Tricia Marcella Cimera is a Midwestern poet with a worldview. Look for her work in these diverse places (some forthcoming): Anti-Heroin Chic, Buddhist Poetry Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Failed Haiku, I Am Not A Silent Poet, Mad Swirl, Silver Birch Press, The Bees are Dead, Wild Plum and elsewhere.  She has two micro collections, THE SEA AND A RIVER and BOXBOROUGH POEMS, on the Origami Poems Project website.  Tricia believes there’s no place like her own backyard and has traveled the world (including Graceland).  She lives with her husband and family of animals in Illinois / in a town called St. Charles / by a river named Fox and keeps a Poetry Box in her front yard.