Brian Patrick Roach
Monthly poem
City symphony rides on the summer night’s breeze: speedy sirens whistle and wail urgently alarming emergency somewhere; cymbals clash and clang banging around on the tracks; a jackhammer maims pavement
to keep the busy streets in action; and from the balcony seats someone begins to clap.
The melody of metro life
like a muffled machinegun firing at a drum;
cranky horns honk in heavy traffic
the wind's easy conduction
erupts into a frenzy;