Alley



She take the broadway bus

downtown to 16th street

looks through the alley

if no one’s in it

she runs like the wind

not daring to chance

meeting the man who grabbed

her in the crotch

last summer

when she was just nine


1 comments:

J Cosmo Newbery said...

Ouch! We carry a swodge of demons and ghosts with us for ever.