Poem A Day, 012

For today’s prompt, write a city poem. The poem can take place in a city, can remember the city (in a general sense), be an ode to a specific city, or well, you should know the drill by now. City poem: Write it!

Moontower

The night was wide with moonlight

Great cake slices of whiteness

Wedged between slips of grass

And sidewalk

Tiptoe traipsing,

We tread our way through

swathes of sounds

a mosaic of Tejano

and bass thump

and techno

Stuffed between

mingling scents of

Mountain Laurel laced

with cumin

and sawdust

and flour

It used to be here

There used to be 32

mercury vapor

incandescents

Cutting the night

into cake shapes

Now here we stand

in the shadow

flashblind from the future

hands cupped around

the past