Acquainted with Film Noir       

by Leslie Monsour

 Leslie Monsour reads 

Acquainted with Film Noir



in RealAudio format.
     

   
  
A forehead glistens in a band of light

Downstairs, a hallway clock is pulsing hard
To amplify the sense of keeping guard
Against the thing that might strike any time,
As midnight's throbbing doom begins to chime.

The bedmate is a guiltless, unlit shape,
Whose presence further serves to block escape,
While that caught face, whose sinking heart I share,
Burns isolately in the light-drained air.

A forehead glistens in a band of light.

      Able Muse

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