Sunday, July 15, 2007

Natural Gas

Peter Wild (b. 1940)

When you push the lever up
the warm gases leap through the house.

All night I lie awake
as beside me you lie buried in the dark,
listening to the thermostat click on and off,

the ghosts of the fierce creatures,
starting, stopping, puzzled in the pipes
all the way to Texas.

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