Desire

There was a large boom from

down by the river

                        The sirens were

distant, but audible within a

minute’s time,

                        At the end of the

alley in the trough of the two

slant roofs, I thought it looked

brighter,

               But I couldn’t tell

if perhaps it had something

to do with my sudden desire

to have a squad car go screaming

wrong way up the one way

To be witness to a real life event,

A commercial airplane passed,

loud, low over my head