Progress night barge, low and slow slips by in silence dark water forgives its passage neither blocking nor remarking on its import dull eyes and ears hurry on the quay flowing between stony past and fluid future home to a simple supper only dog and rats smell shifting winds laden with soot towering clock, modern wonder will not pause, take breath, nor cry for me brash tungsten flare mocks soft gas-light glow faithful friend to hearth and home childless so quickly passes pain and light steam and strife, steel and greed insatiable beast steady as the river’s flow safe as time cold as pride Cathy Hollister Cathy Hollister is an older writer whose work celebrates treasures embedded in age, isolation, and continual readjustments. When not writing you might find her on the dance floor enjoying the company of friends or deep in the woods basking in the peace of solitude. Her work has been in Smokey Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Open Door Magazine, Humans of the World Blog, Beyond Words Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Poet’s Choice anthologies, and others. Her new book Seasoned Women, is available at Poet’s Choice. She lives in middle Tennessee; find her online at www.cathyhollister.com
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