Cloister-ed corporate commuters <br />Squeezed in noxious rows <br />And encased in tubular steel <br />A clan’s compulsion <br />Just streaking underground <br />All privately yearning <br />To fly-out <br />To nest <br />On stronger shoulders <br />Flocked in winter’s softer wool <br />As if they were <br />Moths encircling <br />That security light <br />Outside <br />My mountaintop back-door <br /> <br /> <br />(Mountaintop Cottage, Tennessee <br />~ August 29,2006)<br /><br />Debora Short<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tuesday-morning-edited/
