You can read the cold
in the austerity of porchlights
and the white soul of maple bark
that makes a shy shiver
when it guesses which star
might love it back.
But I am all halogen high beams
in this poor morning.
The final bone of an unwelcome skeleton
that won’t leave its ghost alone.
And here in the city –
with none of the long-sung
undone thunder of somewhere
less given to the living –
I am stung by lone red lights
and the odd mid-block walker
made bold by the madness
of his addictions.
Still.
He moves on.
I do all the stopping.
Andy Havens 
really great poem. i really like the last two lines. as someone who often city walks, i can relate to this.
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Thank you. I think I had just come back from an early morning trip to the airport, and noticed how much time I spent stopped, though there was hardly anyone else in sight. Except the odd walker, absorbed in a world very different from mine. At the time.
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