Tag: sidewalk

• Bad Business

  

  Habit had me walking home along the trolley rails late at night when no one else was on the road. A girl with a bag hanging on her hip was coming down the hill next to my building. She saw me stepping off the rails and onto the sidewalk. She passed my door as I…

  Dan Metzger

  May 24, 2016

  Fiction, Short Story

  apartment, bed, book, creative writing, Fiction, hobo, locomotion, love, poem, poetry, reading, scene, sidewalk, sleep, street, streetcar, trains, trolley

• Our Complicated Public Union

  

  Walk beneath my canopy, aerial assaults pinging as you find a pace. In April’s warm mist your cheeks I keep dry. Hold me and I hold you, the infant wrapped in the folds of her mother’s arms. On clear days you hide me and I take comfort in the act. Hidden on the floor of…

  Dan Metzger

  August 20, 2015

  Poetry

  clouds, creative writing, love, material, motherhood, nature, object, poem, poetry, private, public, rain, sidewalk, skies, storm, sun, sunshine